After cutting a hole through a fence, eight people, in two vehicles made their way into Brussels airport.
Disguised as police and wearing masks they approached a Helvetic Airways plane and forced open the cargo hold.
They took with them one hundred and twenty packages of uncut diamonds.
Antwerp World Diamond Centre, who the diamonds belonged to, estimated the loss at about fifty million dollars.
However, nearly nine times that much was aboard the plane.
Police say that clearly the thieves knew what they were after, as the whole operation took only minutes.
It is unclear why the thieves did not take all the diamonds.
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