Riyadh, Shawwal 2, 1436, July 18, 2015, SPA -- King Khaled International Airport announced that at eleven o'clock of the evening on Friday, the first of Shawwal, a network outage occurred in the transfer of information led to the exit of control of border points system out of the service , and resulted in travelers could not finish the passport procedures. The airport explained in a press release today that it received false information about the cause of the failure as it is a transfer of the STC information network, while the fact that it is not for the STC any responsibility for the problem that occurred, and the airport service through three independent circuits if disruption occurs in anyone the others cover the airport. The statement said that the interruptions affected the departure of (12) international flight schedules for travelers who were not be able to finish departure procedures by the system, while depending during the outage on manual systems that took a long time, and the outage continued for nearly four hours. -- SPA 15:46 LOCAL TIME 12:46 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w