 Mercury Insurance reported that it had carried a total of $230,000 in insurance policies () for passengers on the flight, and said that the amount was not unusual.CAB investigators dismissed the possibility of insurance-motivated sabotage by reporting that "no untoward amount" of life insurance had been taken out on any of the occupants of the plane.The following year, it was revealed that the Western Life Insurance Company of Helena, Montana had refused to pay off a $20,000 life insurance policy on one of the passengers that had been purchased shortly before the flight.