FAA: ERAM software upgrade source of ATC failure

FAA has conceded an Aug. 15 air traffic control (ATC) system failure affecting hundreds of flights was rooted in a software upgrade to its ATC computer system. The system failure at FAA’s high-altitude en route center in Leesburg, Virginia, is being attributed by FAA to “a recent software upgrade”...

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