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Do you know that the Vancouver Worldwide Airport (YVR)\u00a0used to have life insurance coverage merchandising machines from which passengers may buy last-minute insurance coverage proper earlier than boarding their flights?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

The machines have been first put in by an insurance coverage underwriting firm in 1951.<\/p>\n

At the moment, for each quarter you plugged within the machine you\u2019d get $5,000 value of life insurance coverage. The utmost you may initially purchase was $25,000 value for $1.25, and that finally went as much as a $75,000 most.<\/p>\n

You have been insured for \u201cunintentional lack of life, limb or sight and different accidents\u201d on flights.<\/p>\n

Pilots’ associations lobbied towards the machines\u00a0for years, after various insurance coverage frauds have been perpetrated and so they feared that promoting insurance coverage like this inspired the sabotage of flights.<\/p>\n

In reality, in the USA, there was a case the place a person confessed to purchasing insurance coverage from one among a lot of these machines on the Denver airport, then bombing the aircraft that his mom was on by placing an explosive system in a wrapped Christmas present she introduced on board.<\/p>\n

Forty-four folks died because of\u00a0Jack Gilbert Graham’s bomb. He\u00a0was tried and convicted, then just a few months later was\u00a0executed.<\/p>\n

In 1968 the machines have been successfully banned from YVR after they opened a brand new terminal, and so they haven\u2019t been seen since.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n