Realising his fighter would explode if the fire reached the fuel tanks, Smith decided to bale out.

The fighter exploded, raining burning bits down into the encampment's perimeter.

Jake released the trigger and rolled away as the fighter exploded.

"Charges away," he said, and a heartbeat later, the second fighter exploded.

Several secondary explosions rumbled around them as other fighters and helicopters up on deck caught fire and exploded.

Lon almost cheered when one fighter exploded.

For a moment Blue Leader seemed to hang in space; then the fighter exploded and disintegrated, its parts scattered, its pilot a memory.

The fighter exploded in a rain of glowing gas and debris.

Two of the T'kaan horned fighters exploded in his wake.

She was still watching, working off her gloves, when the fighter exploded.