Originally Posted by
Justapax1
Does anyone remember when a booth at London (Heathrow) Aeroport used to sell flight insurance, so that if you were in a plane that crashed, your relatives would cash in?
You saw vending machines selling travel insurance at every US airport I visited back in the day.
Self-serve luggage lockers too.
There was an American who purchased insurance on his mother and sent her off on a United DC-6 with a wrapped gift in her luggage that was actually a bomb. It exploded in flight and took down the aircraft with mother and forty four other passengers.
Through good forensic and investigatory work by the FBI, he was caught and convicted and went to prison.