Spill your coffee, or tea what have you

naaaah, as any good pilot they don't have the faintest idea of what they're talking about... the times of the highly flammable JP-4 are long gone, JP-8 is not like piston engines avgas, it has a flash point of 46 °C (or 100 °F), it's pretty much like diesel, it takes some good effort to light up. The most intelligent approach would have been to flood the runway with fire retardant and let the big bird sit on it as gently as possible: as soon as it's down on its own weight, the thing will stop quite quickly anyway,then you can release the arrestor hook if need be, cos the arrestor cables are at the extremities of the runway.. I just found it a pretty awkward emergency landing procedure, but if the Ozs are happy with it..