The smaller Liege Airport was also closed after drones had been seen.<\/p>\n
Defence Minister Theo Francken told public broadcaster RTBF that the incident appeared to be carried out by professionals intent on destabilising the country.<\/p>\n
Bernard Quintin, the minister of the interior, asked prime minister Bart De Wever to convene the National Security Council in response to the sighting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not allow our airports to be disrupted by uncontrolled drone flights. This calls for a coordinated, national response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
An update on the Brussels Airport<\/a> website early on Wednesday said flights had been resumed, but warned that disruption for travellers was expected to continue and passengers should be prepared for delays.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Travellers are facing delayed and cancelled flights (BELGA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Earlier on Tuesday, an airport spokesperson said there were \u201cno flights currently landing or taking off\u201d and that there were no estimates for how long the airport would remain closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Belgium<\/a>‘s busiest airport briefly reopened on Tuesday evening after two hours of disruption, but was then closed again after more drone sightings<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kurt Verwilligen, a spokesperson for the Belgian air traffic control<\/a> service, said that shortly before 7pm GMT a drone had been seen near Brussels Airport, and the airport had therefore been closed as a security precaution.<\/p>\n Flight data on the Brussels Airport website shows a number of delayed and cancelled flights, with FlightRadar24 reporting some have been diverted. <\/p>\n Located 12 kilometres northeast of Brussels, the airport is a major hub for international travel, serving locations including the UK, Dubai, and Turkey.<\/p>\n A message on the airport\u2019s website read: \u201cThere are currently no departing or arriving flights at Brussels Airport due to drone sightings around the airport. We will provide updates as soon as we have more information.\u201d<\/p>\n The last flight that departed on Tuesday was the 7.30pm to Prague, with the last arrival into the airport at 7.50pm from the Spanish island of Tenerife. <\/p>\n The incident followed similar closures of the Polish airport Lublin<\/a> in September this year after multiple Russian drones reportedly crossed into Polish territory, <\/a>leading to Nato<\/a> fighter jets being scrambled to intercept them.<\/p>\n Following the incident, the Polish military\u2019s operational command posted on X that ground-based air defence systems were on high alert, stressing that “these actions are preventive in nature” to secure Poland’s airspace and protect its citizens.<\/p>\n In September, Copenhagen Airport and Oslo Airport had to be closed briefly as a result of drone sightings, while drones were also seen over a Belgian military air base last weekend.<\/p>\n The nature of any drone incursion and how many drones may have been involved is not yet clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-244819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Travellers](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SEI110627286.jpg\")
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