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A 2nd Boeing whistleblower "coincidentally" dies — just weeks after 1st Boeing whistleblower died [1]
['Carla Sinclair']
Date: 2024-05-02
Less than two months after Boeing whistleblower John Barnett unexpectedly died, another Boeing whistleblower has passed away — this time from a "sudden, fast-spreading" bacterial infection.
Josh Dean, a healthy 45-year-old former quality auditor who worked at Spirit AeroSystems — one of Boeing's suppliers (not to be confused with Spirit Airlines) —had complained to Spirit about a "serious defect" that involved improperly drilled holes in "the aft pressure bulkhead of the MAX," according to The Seattle Times.
But rather than address the issue, Spirit fired him. (They were later forced to halt production in one of their plants after faulty drilled holes were discovered).
Dean, living in Kansas, then gave a deposition in a lawsuit against the company and contacted the Federal Aviation Administration to lodge a complaint, alleging that Spirit had conducted "serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line."
But his fight against the company abruptly ended two weeks ago, when he struggled to breathe and was hospitalized. On Tuesday, he died.
Whether two Boeing whistleblowers unexpectedly dying within months of each other is coincidence or not, it's at least suspicious — especially since Barnett, who died from a gunshot wound, had warned his friend shortly before his death: "If anything happens to me, it's not suicide."
From The Seattle Times:
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