Insufficient attention was paid, and the fuel exploded, not a nuclear explosion but very dirty and hot.
But fuel gushing from ruptured lines splashed across hot metal and exploded into flame before he could complete the action.
Secondary explosions ate their way through the burning wreckage as fuel and munitions exploded.
The escaping fuel flowed into the sewers and exploded, setting several houses on fire.
The second had an engine malfunction and its fuel exploded.
American intelligence officials said they were also pursuing the possibility that fuel used for North Korea's missiles might have accidentally exploded.
Others may have been incinerated when the jet's fuel exploded.
Then all the fuel still in the wing exploded.
'He wants to get the lad out in case the fuel explodes,' the woman beside her muttered.
Angalo tells the gnomes that if there is a single spark the fuel will explode.