The International Reception Terminal at the largest airport facility in East Africa.

Aug. 7, 2013

Firefighters (click here) stand in a damaged portion of the airport. Many of the responding emergency crews were from private security firms.

Noor Khamis / Reuters

President Uhuru Kenyatta needs to allow a through investigation of the cause of this fire.

From "allAfrica.com"

Kenya's Main International Airport On Fire (click here)

Flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have been diverted to other airports following a major fire that broke out, grounding operations.

The fire was in addition to this crash. A coincidence?

By Margaret Wahito, 6 June 2012
Nairobi, Kenya — Operations resumed (click here) at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after nine hours of interruption caused by an EgyptAir aircraft 849 plane that veered off the runway and got stuck while landing on Wednesday morning.

Officials at the largest and busiest airport in East Africa for local and international flights said the plane, was eventually pulled away at about noon and most of the scheduled flights at the time took off.

The Kenya Airports Authority said the plane was carrying 123 passengers from Cairo, when it overshot the runway at 3.30am....