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I'm no expert but my Uncle was, he always said he would quite happily chuck a lit cigarette into a swimming pool full of avgas, it would simply go out. Try and think of a candle, you can put a naked flame on a candle and nothing will happen other than the wax melting. Light the wick and the wax...

Or an American one, an Israeli one, A British one. Rupture the tanks and let the jet engine ignite the rest. Avgas is fairly benine, it requires an ignition sorce.

Aviation fuel is very similar to diesel, it would take more than a cigarette to ignite it