Riyadh Airport Attack: How the Houthis Got Through

👉 What happened next? Members-only follow-up on Reconstructed Plus: https://youtu.be/10KZHoDL7S0 Join our newsletter, all News explained: https://reconstructed.news/riyadh?m=desc Try kloudboard free for 14 days: https://kloudboard.com/r/reconstructed?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=riyadh&utm_content=description TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reconstructednews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconstructednews X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/reconstructedyt Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/@reconstructedtv Reconstructed: https://reconstructed.app All our channels: https://reconstructed.tv Sponsor a film: https://reconstructed.media Business inquiries: [email protected] ---- On Saturday 10 October 2026, in the afternoon, a missile hit the domestic terminal complex of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority counted 12 dead and 309 injured; an Indian man died of his wounds the next day, so 13 people have died. It was the deadliest attack inside the kingdom since May 2015, and by Reuters' count the third attack on the airport that week. The Saudi-led coalition blamed Yemen's Houthis; on Sunday the Houthis claimed it. This film rebuilds the afternoon at the terminal, the week of strikes on Saudi airports, the July runway strike in Sanaa that started this round, and the question the title asks: how did the missile get through? It sets out what Saudi Arabia has said about its defences and what analysts say could explain it. Saudi Arabia has not said how the missile got through. The victims are named only where their governments, employers or families named them. This film shows no image of any victim and no injury. The 3D scenes are reconstructions. Update, 12 October 2026: a second strike on Sunday evening killed one person and injured 11, the civil aviation authority says; the airport remains closed; officials told AP a Saudi. 00:00 Gate 401 01:59 Three o'clock 06:55 The third attack 09:13 The runway 11:04 How it got through 15:21 "We may" 17:31 Sunday Official records and statements: · UN Special Envoy for Yemen, statement, 11 Oct 2026: https://x.com/OSE_Yemen/status/2109063649860194812 · The White House, departure gaggle, 10 Oct 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPscOnPqVM4 · Saudi Press Agency, GACA notice, 10 Oct 2026: https://www.spa.gov.sa/en/N2697867 · UN News, the 2022 truce: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115392 · Human Rights Watch, 28 Jul 2026: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/28/strikes-endangering-civilians-in-yemen-and-saudi-arabia Reporting: AP via ABC News, AP via NPR, Al Jazeera, Arab News, BBC, BBC live page, Business Today, CBS News, CBS News live updates, CNBC, CNN, Euronews, Gulf News, Gulf News live, MS NOW, NBC News, NBC News, updated 11:13 PM EDT, Okaz, Philstar, Reuters, Reuters via Yahoo, Saudi Gazette, Siasat, Siasat.com, TIME, The Daily Star, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The National, TheJournal.ie. Quoted, not shown: GACA (Saudi civil aviation authority), the Saudi-led coalition (Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki), Saudia, Yahya Saree, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, Marco Rubio, Sen. Chris Murphy, Shehbaz Sharif, the UK defence secretary, Hans Grundberg, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh, Egypt's foreign minister, Nawaf Obaid (King's College London), Wolfgang Pusztai, Anna Jacob (AGSI), Jeffrey Lewis, Frank Gardner (BBC). Witness accounts via AFP and Reuters. The White House clip (10 Oct 2026) is a U.S. government work. Photos: public domain (U.S. government works and Wikimedia Commons), by Astronauts, Daniel Torok, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, National Missile Defense image, The White House, TheHadiRahim, U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Airman 1st Class Zeeshan Naeem, U.S. Army 10AAMDC by Sgt. 1st Class Jason Epperson, U.S. Army 94AAMDC by Maj. Nicholas Chopp, U.S. Department of Defense Current Photos, U.S. Department of State, United States Senate, http://www.amc.af.mil/. CC photos (Wikimedia Commons): B.alotaby (BY-SA 4.0); Belqees TV (BY 3.0); Charles (BY 2.0); Clemens Schmillen (BY-SA 4.0); DearEdward from New York, NY, USA (BY 2.0); Francisco Anzola (BY 2.0); Habeeb Shaikh (BY-SA 3.0); Jack Soma (BY 3.0); Julien Harneis from Sana'a, Yemen (BY-SA 2.0); Kayhan ERTUGRUL (BY-SA 3.0); Kharbaan Ghaltaan (BY-SA 4.0); Kritzolina (BY-SA 4.0); Kskhh (BY-SA 3.0); Kskhh (BY-SA 4.0); Ned Russell from New York, USA (BY 2.0); Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia (BY-SA 2.0); Stefan Krasowski from New York, NY, USA (BY 2.0); TheAafi (BY-SA 4.0); Vanquish0 (BY-SA 4.0); Vyacheslav Argenberg (BY 4.0); liton islam (BY 3.0). Headlines shown: Al Jazeera, Arab News, BBC News, Business Today, CNBC, CNN, Iran International (reporting Reuters), NPR (The Associated Press), Office of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen (@OSE_Yemen on X), Reuters (via Yahoo News), Saudi Gazette, TIME. #Riyadh #SaudiArabia #Houthis #KingKhalidAirport