# Fake Video Shows Missile Strike on Riyadh Airliner

> Lead Stories fact-checks fake missile video claiming to show Houthi strike on Saudia airliner at Riyadh airport.
- Title: Fake Video Shows Missile Strike on Riyadh Airliner | Shortify
- Summary: Lead Stories fact-checks fake missile video claiming to show Houthi strike on Saudia airliner at Riyadh airport. A fabricated video falsely depicts a Houthi…
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- Source: Lead Stories — https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/10/fact-check-fake-video-shows-a-missile-striking-a-saudia-airliner-at-riyadh-airport.html
- Published: 2026-10-10T00:23:59+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: houthi, saudia, riyadh airport, missile strike, fake video, lead stories, fact check, saudia airliner, king khalid airport, houthi missile, news
## Fake Video Claims
A video posted by @HatemSaleh_ on X on Oct 8, 2026 claims a houthi missile struck a saudia airliner at riyadh airport.

> Urgent | 🚨 New video footage of the moment king khalid international airport in the saudi capital riyadh was targeted
## Real Attack Occurred
A saudia airliner was destroyed at king khalid international airport on oct 8, 2026, but the missile strike footage is fabricated.

> Yemen's iran-aligned houthis said on thursday they had attacked the airport with two cruise missiles
## Real Photos Show Aftermath
Real photos and videos show only smoldering wreckage of the plane, not the missile strike moment.

> The reports include several photos and videos of a large plume of smoke rising or the smoldering wreckage of the destroyed saudia airliner
## Video Glitches
Slow motion reveals a golfcart-sized service vehicle transforming into a flat cardboard cutout during the blast.

> A golfcart-sized service vehicle transforms as the blast throws it, appearing like a flat cardboard cutout of a vehicle
## Misread Scene
The video misreads the scene by adding yellow to the white vehicle, which is actually part of the lift overlapping the vehicle.

> The little white vehicle is rendered with a yellow front, but this yellow is actually part of the lift that happens to be visually overlapped with the white vehicle in the scene
## 2016 Photo Match
The fake video uses a 2016 Shutterstock photo of a saudia airliner parked at riyadh airport as its reference image.

> Riyadh - march 01: Planes preparing for take off at riyadh king khalid airport on march 01, 2016 in riyadh, saudi arabia
## Key Differences
The 2016 photo shows two tipped traffic cones and missing lighting poles, while the video shows only one cone and no upper poles.

> In the 2016 image from shutterstock, there are two tall connected poles supporting large racks of lighting
## Fact Check Tools
Lead stories used ai detection tools like hive moderation and synthid detector but found no strong signal of ai-generated content.

> Lead stories uploaded the @hatemsaleh_ video and screenshots from the video to several ai-generated content detection tools
## Key takeaway

A fabricated video falsely depicts a Houthi missile hitting a Saudia airliner at Riyadh airport; real photos show only wreckage aftermath from 2016.