Originally Posted by Totenkopf

I had watched a documentary once (Name slips my mind) that showed all the ways that the Comet could fail. The most scary looking one was upon attempting to ignite the fuel, the two valves (or whatever, im no mechanic) that held the fuel had to be on a precise angle. If one of them were one degree in another direction one side would burn more then the other and cause a huge explosion.

All of it could happen within 2 seconds.