Brussels Airport finds drone, Belgian airspace closed.

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05/11/2025
On November 4th, local time, Skeyes, the company responsible for air traffic control in Belgium, announced that Brussels Airport, the capital of Belgium, received reports of a drone flying over the airport during the evening. As a precautionary measure, all air traffic at the airport was temporarily suspended. Initially, Brussels Airport announced that flights would be rerouted to Liege Airport in Belgium, but a spokesperson for Liege Airport later stated that the entire airspace of Belgium had been closed. The affected flights were rerouted to Maastricht Airport in the Netherlands.