Drone sightings have closed two airports in Belgium – leaving flights suspended at Brussels foremost airport and at Liège Airport.
Belgium information web site VRT are reporting there’s additionally been studies of drone sightings at Florennes army base.
‘There aren’t any flights departing or arriving resulting from suspected drones,’ a spokesman for Brussels Airport informed native media.
Air site visitors was additionally halted as a precaution on the second-largest airport Charleroi as a precaution, operators there mentioned.
Kurt Verwilligen, a spokesperson for the Belgian air site visitors management service, mentioned that shortly earlier than 1900 GMT a drone had been seen close to Brussels Airport, and the airport had due to this fact been closed as a safety precaution.
A message on the airport’s web site reads: ‘There are at present no departing or arriving flights at Brussels Airport resulting from drone sightings across the airport.
‘We are going to present updates as quickly as we have now extra info.’
Photos taken contained in the airport present what look like camp beds being readied for passengers.
Brussels Airport is closed after the reported sighting of a drone, mentioned the Belgian air site visitors management service and a spokeswoman for the airport. Pictured: Travellers wait in an empty departure corridor at Zaventem airport as air site visitors is suspended following a reported drone sighting, in Zaventem exterior Brussels, on November 4, 2025
Kurt Verwilligen, a spokesperson for the Belgian air site visitors management service, mentioned that shortly earlier than 1900 GMT a drone had been seen close to Brussels Airport, and the airport had due to this fact been closed as a safety precaution
Minister of the Inside Bernard Quintin requested Prime Minister Bart De Wever to convene the Nationwide Safety Council after the drones had been noticed, in response to the Belga information company.
‘We won’t enable our airports to be disrupted by uncontrolled drone flights. This requires a coordinated, nationwide response,’ the minister emphasised.
He added that the security of passengers and workers is an absolute precedence and that the federal police and the Ministry of Protection are carefully monitoring the scenario.
Situated 12 kilometres northeast of Brussels, the airport is a serious hub for worldwide journey, serving places together with the UK, Dubai, and Turkey.
Flight information on the Brussels Airport web site reveals quite a few delayed and cancelled flights, with FlightRadar24 reporting some have been diverted.
The final flight that seems to have departed is the 19:30 to Prague, with the final arrival into the airport at 19:50 from the Spanish island of Tenerife.
Flights had been initially diverted from Brussels Airport to Liège Airport, however it additionally closed resulting from a drone alert.
French broadcaster RTBF are reporting flights to each these airports had been additionally diverted to Maastricht and Cologne airports.
The air site visitors controller informed RTBF ‘There is no such thing as a proof but of a hyperlink between the studies in Brussels and Liège.’
Over the weekend, Belgian authorities reported drone exercise over the Kleine-Brogel army base, the place quite a few US nuclear weapons are believed to be saved.
The Belgian army intelligence is conducting an investigation into the sightings
Belgium Defence Minister, Theo Francken remained tight-lipped on blaming Russia however mentioned ‘professionals’ carried out the coordinated operation.
‘They’re making an attempt to sow panic in Belgium,’ Francken informed native media.
He described it as ‘destabilisation.’
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With the warfare on Ukraine now in its fourth yr, tensions stay excessive as questions are raised over potential Russian involvement in elevated drone exercise throughout Europe.
In September, Copenhagen Airport and Oslo Airport needed to be closed briefly because of drone sightings, whereas drones had been additionally seen over a Belgian army air base final weekend.
All site visitors was halted and after unidentified drones had been ‘noticed close by’ at Copenhagen Airport at round 8.26pm native time on September 22.
The airport reopened at round 12.30am.
Between two and three ‘giant’ drones had been sighted within the space, Copenhagen police spokesperson Henrik Stormer mentioned, and the airport revealed the drones remained current within the space for a number of hours afterwards.
Not less than 35 flights had been diverted to different websites, together with Malmo and Gothenburg, Sweden, and Billund, Aalborg, and Aarhus, Denmark.
Later within the night, Oslo Airport in Norway was additionally compelled to shut and divert its planes after drones had been noticed within the neighborhood.
