It's just a LITTLE spillage!

[Primer]

And if you think filling up a car is a hassle, you should try refuelling an aircraft.

I just had the visual of the jet rolling away with the hose still stuck in the fuel tank...

[Chromatix]

It's probably happened somewhere.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Or someone not paying attention to filling and dumping a load of petrol on the ground? O_o Then saying it's a little spillage?

[Belari]

Not to mention that JP-8 (aviation fuel for jet engines, unless they've changed it since I knew) is much more volitile than what is used in automobiles. It goes boom much easier than regular unleaded.

I dunno about commercial, but military jets use JP-8. My husband is a jet engine mechanic, so I'm very familiar with the smell of the stuff

[Geek King]

I think the fuel used in almost all civil jets is officially known as Jet-A. I don't know if this is the same as JP-8, but Jet-A has been the standard jet fuel for nearly forever. Jet-A is essentially kerosene with extra quality controls.

I actually got curious and looked it up on wiki (Here for the interested). It looks like Jet-A is JP-8 with some addatives, if I read that right. You may be right about the conditions being the real issue. I got my info from an Air Force guy I worked with in an old job, and he may have confused the more dangerous environmental variables with the volatility of the fuel. Neat, I learned my something new today. Now I can go back home to sleep.