LimeyAK - are you sure you fly a 747 as you claim? If so you'd know that there's a significant amount of unusable fuel - and plenty of other combustible material - on board an aircraft. Even the skin burns once the temperature is high enough.
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According to the Foreign Office, the person that was killed was
not British. This from the Telegraph:
Jet crash Britons recover from ordeal
Four Britons who survived a jumbo jet crash in Nigeria are recovering from their ordeal.
One crew member was killed when the Boeing
747 came down near the airport at Port Harcourt, in the south-east of the country.
The cargo plane, chartered by Panalpina World
Trans Limited freight company, was flying to South America from Luxembourg.
It tried to land in Nigeria to drop off supplies for local oil operations, state-run radio said, but crashed on the approach, near Igbo village.
The Foreign Office denied reports that a British engineer had died of injuries from the crash, which left six of the 13 crew needing treatment in a local hospital for serious wounds.
A spokeswoman said: "There were four Britons
on board but no British fatalities. We have no details of any injuries.
"They were on board an MK Airlines Boeing
747 which crashed on approach to Port Harcourt international airport, in south-east
Nigeria."
MK Airlines had told the Foreign Office there was one fatality and it was not British.
"All the families of the crew members on board the flight have been notified," the
spokeswoman added.
"The four British men were crew members. Their families have been informed and the
airline has organised for the crew to be flown out of Nigeria as soon as possible."