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by WalterBright 1457 days ago
Um, airplanes also burn now and then. An awful lot of airplane design is expended trying to keep them from catching fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zeDsSJmcpM&t=211s

One advantage to a hydrogen fire is it burns up and away. A kerosene fire drips and burns down onto whatever the airplane crashed on.