My first passenger mission ended in disaster.

Unfortunately it turned out that the passengers I was transporting were wanted.

Here is the transcript of the letter I wrote to my insurance company and their response

"Really weird - as I approached Taylor City in the Vega system suddenly the station & all ships said a no fire zone violation had occurred (I didn't even have hardpoints deployed) and my ship was destroyed in 2 seconds!!! My first class passengers died too and their lawyers are furious.

I'd like my insurance company to make a claim against the Taylor City Management and re-reimburse me please - unless that is they can prove there was some wrong doing. There was no indication that my passengers were wanted or any such issue but if there is a genuine reason I'll eat the insurance cost.

Thanks & best wishes,

CMRD Hyford"

My insurance Company came through again - those guy really have my back:

"Thanks for getting in touch, apologies for the delayed response, we've all been very busy over the last 2 weeks and have been working tirelessly to get our response times back to normal.

From looking through our logs we can confirm that the station killed you due to a bounty being placed on your head for carrying a wanted passenger.

I'm happy to reimburse you for the cost of your re-buy and this won't affect your no claims bonus. We are currently building a case against the Taylor City Management and we WILL make them pay for the psychological and financial trauma that their actions have put your through, and this is a case that we will not settle on." 

As an interesting aside the insurance company also confirmed an upcoming update to the galactic regulations:
"You will be happy to know that as of the update on 15 November 3002 stations will no longer open fire on players who have bounties, you will still receive bounties for carrying wanted passengers but the station will no longer fire on you, it will only send fighters out against you. It is also much clearer whether the passenger you are picking up will be wanted or not."

Below is my new sand coloured paint job for my Corvette the Midnight Sun in Neche (Descartes Station) and Rhea (Ito Orbital).