Originally Posted by
fdcg27
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.
Wasn't that scenario the base plot for the original Airport film (the one with the 707 that had a crack running almost entirely around the tail after a briefcase bomb went off in the rear toilet and Patroni had to clear another aircraft off the runway that was stuck in the snow to allow the bombed aircraft to land....and he managed it all whilst chewing a cigar in true Hollywood fashion?)