PILOTS OBJECT
Insurance By Machine
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 8. The sale of insurance at airports by slot machines was opposed by pilots because it could lead to unbalanced or criminally minded people planning air crashes for financial gain. Captain J. M. Bartelski said in Auckland today. Captain Bartelski, the deputy-president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations, said it had been proved on three or four occasions that crashes had been caused by people who had heavily insured somebody travelling on an aircraft and then planted a bomb on it. Captain G. Vette, president of the New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association, said he believed that at one stage there had been such a machine at Wellington.
“When insurance is sold personally the person doing the insuring is likely to detect any peculiarities in whoever is taking out insurance,” he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 5
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143PILOTS OBJECT Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 5
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