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Saudia Airbus A320 destroyed in attack and global airlines adjust routes while Delta misses earnings estimates.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-10 01:07Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A busy airport scene at dusk with people in traditional Saudi attire and airline staff in uniforms amidst planes and luggage carts, as a destroyed Airbus A320 smolders in the background, under a darkening sky with contrails streaking across the horizon.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A busy airport scene at dusk with people in traditional Saudi attire and airline staff in uniforms amidst planes and luggage carts, as a destroyed Airbus A320 smolders in the background, under a darkening sky with contrails streaking across the horizon. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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Saudia Airbus A320 destroyed in attack at Riyadh airport 8 October 2026
A Saudia Airlines Airbus A320 was destroyed at King Khalid International Airport, with Houthi rebels claiming responsibility for the strike.
By Gordon Frame · 19hOn 8 October 2026, an attack at Riyadh King Khalid International Airport destroyed an Airbus A320 series aircraft operated by Saudia Airlines.
Leaked images and footage of the destroyed aircraft were published online the same day.
Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the attack.
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