Do you feel as if you are helping save lives by designing weather prof equipment for the planes?

Question: Do you feel as if you are helping save lives by designing weather prof equipment for the planes?
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  equipment,
  plane,
  weather,
  work
Asked by papachristidis to Ed on 12 Mar 2013.
- Edward Taylor answered on 12 Mar 2013:
  
  Yeh I think in the long run I might be saving some lives. By making sure the controls keep working no matter what, I make sure that wherever the plane is expected to go, nothing in the environment can cause it to crash.
  
  A really tragic accident happened with a french airliner, where the bit of the equipment which measures the planes speed froze in cold weather. That meant that the pilots thought the plane was going fast enough to fly, but actually it was slowing down and they didn’t notice (it was a stormy night). Unfortunately because they didn’t realise in time, the plane crashed. Properly testing equipment can avoid things like that from ever happening again.

Question: Do you feel as if you are helping save lives by designing weather prof equipment for the planes?