I’ve worked around aviation for over 30 years, first as a firefighter, then an airt raffic controller and then to airport operations. Currently I work with the FAA developing instrument approach procedures. When you are flying you are basically inside a fuel tank with wings. Fuel and flammables are just about everywhere, under the fuselage, inside the wings, engines, etc. The only comfort is that in a crash like that the passengers don’t survive very long. About the only chance they have is if the aircraft breaks up and allows some of the passengers to escape. This is what happened when the L-1011 crashed in Souix City, IA. The aircraft broke up into three pieces, some of the passengers were tossed out, and some were able to escape. There were even a few passengers who were thrown clear of the wreckage and escaped completly unharmed.
Scary stuff!!
That was a DC-10. You might be thinking of the Delta flight?? going into DFW that hit wind shear and broke up.