Thanks, pinkman!
Nothing to add to your insightful post, except that if someone wants to eyeball the actual chromatograms for some varieties of fuels, including raw crudes, as well as Jet-A, JP-5, Diesel #1 gasoline, AV-Gas, etc. then this little 6 page PDF has them displayed (caution - link is directly to a PDF file).
http://www.image-train.net/products/.../CM1_alimi.pdf
General method of analyzing kerosene w/GC (from NIOSH):
http://www.osha.gov/dts/sltc/methods...39/pv2139.html
This caution caught my eye: "
Different kerosenes may have similar constituents but not have similar concentrations of these constituents..."
and it seems to reinforce the likelihood that we are probably looking at a very subtle issue, that until all the swiss cheese lined up for BA038, might have manifested itself only in ways far below overt detection/specific identification. Once the chain of cause and effect is determined with finality (and unlike some, I feel it will be), I'll bet there will be an opportunity to look back at some 'oddities' in past, and finally go "Ah HA! there you are, you little son of a gun!"
