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Etienne Davignon, 04/10/1932-18/05/2026

founder and first president SN Air Holding / SN Brussels Airlines.

Historic aircraft and Belgian Air Force A400M headline return of Stampe Forever Fly In at Antwerp Airport

Antwerp Airport will host the return of its popular aviation gathering on May 16 and 17, as the 31st edition of the Fly In event takes place under a new identity: “Stampe Forever”.

After ...

Access by road to Brussels Airport is blocked at this very moment (10h local). Reason: there is gas leak nearby:
https://x.com/verkeerscentrum/status/2054112388568207861

VRT News (in Dutch only): "A201 is closed":
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/05/12/de-a201-de-toegangsweg-naar-brussels ...

Today's SN-3784 LPA-BRU (Gran Canaria-Brussels) OO-SBD (A320-200N) diverted to BOD Bordeaux with a 7700 squawk.

After one hour on the ground at BOD, OO-SBD continued to BRU at cruising level FL360.

So looks like a medical diversion.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/oo-sbd

Richard Quest - CNN's top aviation expert - ranks "The best passenger airplanes of all time".

And his number isn't an Airbus or a Boeing:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/best-pas ... hard-quest

Amsterdam Schiphol had two days of weather disruption:
https://www.aviation24.be/airports/amst ... t-network/

And this morning, there is a power failure in Terminal 2...

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Yesterday (19/12/2025), some 20.000 suitcases were left behind at Amsterdam Schiphol.

Reason: a technical failure in AMS Dep 2.

OO-FAE: Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot’s delegation makes emergency landing in the Caribbean

The Belgian Air Force Falcon 7X jet (reg. OO-FAE) carrying Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot and a parliamentary delegation to the CELAC–EU summit in Colombia was forced to make an emergency landing ...

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Vintage aircraft makes emergency landing in Itegem, Belgium — pilots unharmed after engine failure
A routine training flight turned dramatic on Tuesday evening when a 1958 French-built Piel CP-301A Emeraude vintage aircraft registered OO-JEP was forced to make an emergency ...

FR24 alert: Magma CC3052 reg TF-AMP B747-400 Freighter from Liège to Johannesburg now squawking 7700 and in a holding pattern:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flig ... 2#3ca90285

Elke Wollants is the Lab Manager at the KULeuven Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology. On Twitter (X), she posts updates on the KULeuven research (at 5 places in Belgium) on waste water for corona, influenza and even drugs. And on polio (so far none in Belgium).

The KULeuven ...

After being parked for 6 years in their garage, Zaventem Police (*) finally has recieved the documents for their Tesla police car. The car was bought from a car seller in the Netherlands, who went bankrupt before the documents were delivered.

(Most of Brussels Airport is located in Zaventem ...

01/10/2025
Bomb threat forces evacuation of Brussels–Berlin flight at Brussels Airport
A bomb threat targeting Brussels Airlines flight SN2581 to Berlin (to be operated by airBaltic A220-300 registered YL-ABB) prompted a full evacuation at Brussels Airport on Wednesday morning.

Federal police ...

29/09/2025
Air France and Delta to appoint new ground handling partner at Amsterdam Schiphol
Air France and Delta Air Lines have informed KLM of their decision to seek an alternative ground handling partner at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for their below-the-wing operations, including baggage ...

Amsterdam Schiphol: the two major trade unions CNV and FNV announce two strikes by KLM Ground Staff:
Wednesday 10th Sept from 08h00 till 10h00;
Wednesday 17th Sept from 08h00 till 12h00.

23/08/2025: Western Global N344KD 747-400-F KD-4196 Brussels-Chicago BRU-ORD diverted to Portsmouth PSM (north of Boston) with squawk 7700 during the divertion:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... d#3bde2581

Not really big news, but OE-LFC in recent days has been reregistered to OO-LFC, with a Belgian flag covering up the Austrian one.

It was likely modified around the 16th of this month. Not sure if it's in the Belgian register already, but the visual changes have been made.

Belgian aircraft ...

An-2 crash near Kisangani, DRCongo
On 16 August 2025, an Air Kasai Antonov An-2 aircraft (registration 9S-GZP) crashed about 34 km from Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, killing all seven people on board.

The plane had departed Lubutu Airport for Kisangani to complete a technical ...