Massive fire closes Nairobi Airport

They got off pretty cheap...

Not sure if joke......laughed anyway. Poor 707's and DC-8's :-(

Not many...the vintage parked aircraft are far away across the apron, but your point is well taken. If this were Nairobi's Wilson Airport there would be lots of old Russian helos and fixed wing skeletons about. NBO is where I saw my first re-engined DC-3 with tiny (relative) turboprops installed. They only about a dozen jetways so the apron has a rather impressive line up of international carriers. Apart from Kenya Airways and a discount airline almost all other traffic is international and much of it long range. Most of the little guys from years back have gone.

CORRECTION: this is the NTV live stream

I don't think this fire was deliberate. My man in Nairobi points the finger at Duty Free employees who in the wee hours use electric cookers to prepare personal food. Electricity is expensive in Kenya, so they cook at work with a self installed array of extension cords and power strips. The building is quite ancient and being a British style electrical system not very tolerant to unauthorized modifications. A small fire started from an overload, they thought was extinguished. They went back to cooking, and whoosh the whole thing went up.