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Post by Sarzy on Mar 13, 2024 12:50:12 GMT
A former Boeing employee who blew the whistle on alleged safety concerns at the aircraft manufacturer has been found dead in the US. John Barnett died on Saturday from an apparently "self-inflicted" gunshot wound, a coroner in South Carolina confirmed to the BBC. The 62-year-old was a quality manager for Boeing for 30 years before retiring in 2017. The BBC, which first reported the news of Mr Barnett's death, said he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company in the days before his death. In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBC that up to a quarter of the oxygen systems could be faulty and might not work in an emergency. He also claimed faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on one production line where the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised. Boeing denied both claims. news.sky.com/story/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-found-dead-13093048 |
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Post by sputnik on Mar 13, 2024 14:58:25 GMT
the boeing thing is nuts.
i've been following the boeing stuff pretty thoroughly since the 737 MAX 8 crashes, read countless articles and listened to podcasts, and it's pretty fascinating. it's the perfect example of what happens when profits come before safety and quality, companies scrambling to remain competitive, and what happens when there isn't enough regulation and governments take dumb decisions like letting boeing basically self-regulate, plus a ridiculously weak response from the government and regulating body vis-à-vis a company that's basically too big to fail.
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Post by Sarzy on Mar 13, 2024 16:00:52 GMT
^ Absolutely it is, I've been reading quite a bit about it recently too. Apparently John's lawyers question whether it was suicide. They say there was no indication that he would do it, but there often isn't. I can see how it seems suspicious though. ---- Boeing whistleblower’s lawyers question whether he committed suicide, call for thorough probe: ‘No one can believe it’ By David Propper and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Lawyers for a Boeing whistleblower found dead on the day he was due to testify against the jetliner giant are questioning that he killed himself in a South Carolina parking lot — and calling for an investigation. “We need more information about what happened to John,” attorneys Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, who represent former Boeing manager John Barnett, said in a statement Tuesday. “The Charleston police need to investigate this fully and accurately and tell the public. “We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life,” they added. “No one can believe it.” “No detail can be left unturned.” nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/lawyers-for-boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-question-suicide/ |
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Post by czb on Mar 13, 2024 17:57:54 GMT
yeah it sounds sus.
as a quality manager, this was probably all hard for him to handle. poor guy and poor family.
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Post by greysfang on Mar 13, 2024 18:18:06 GMT
I don’t believe he killed himself for one second. This is like Epstein or Scientology suicide.
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Post by Sarzy on Mar 13, 2024 18:31:01 GMT
In that article above it says:
Barnett was found in his orange pickup truck with a silver handgun in his hand and finger still on the trigger, according to DailyMail.com, citing a separate police report.
I'm pretty clueless about these things but wouldn't that be unusual for his hand to still be in that position if he shot himself?
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Post by brookie on Mar 13, 2024 22:57:55 GMT
I'm still in touch with several pilots from my old airline job (who all fly either 747 or 777), and they all say that once McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing, the quality of the product went totally down the toilet. Apparently, MD used a lot of "shortcuts" in their quality control that were adopted into the new company, and as you can see, stuff got left out (like bolts).
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Post by kittylady on Mar 14, 2024 0:30:06 GMT
I'm still in touch with several pilots from my old airline job (who all fly either 747 or 777), and they all say that once McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing, the quality of the product went totally down the toilet. Apparently, MD used a lot of "shortcuts" in their quality control that were adopted into the new company, and as you can see, stuff got left out (like bolts).I would think that bolts would be pretty important for helping an aircraft, y'know, stay in the air... I don't know if we'll ever get answers to what has gone on here because there's more money than we can imagine at stake, but it's certainly smelling odd. |
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Post by Sarzy on May 3, 2024 17:38:29 GMT
Another one.. Joshua Dean, a Boeing whistleblower who warned of manufacturing defects in the planemaker’s 737 Max, has died after a short illness, the second Boeing whistleblower to die this year.Dean, 45, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alleging “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line” at Spirit. In 2018 and 2019, two 737 Max planes were involved in fatal crashes, which killed 346 people. Dean was fired by Spirit last year, and filed a complaint with the Department of Labor alleging that his termination was in retaliation for raising safety concerns. According to the Seattle Times, Dean was hospitalized after having trouble breathing. He was intubated and developed pneumonia and a serious infection before dying two weeks later.“He passed away yesterday morning, and his absence will be deeply felt. We will always love you Josh,” Dean’s aunt, Carol Dean Parsons, said via Facebook. Dean was represented by the same law firm that represented Boeing whistleblower John “Mitch” Barnett. Barnett, 62, was found dead in March from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Barnett spent almost three decades at Boeing, and told the New York Times in 2019 that he had found “clusters or metal slivers” hanging over the wiring of flight controls that could have caused “catastrophic” damage if they had penetrated wires. He alleged that management had ignored his complaints and moved him to another part of the plant. amp.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/02/second-boeing-whistleblower-dies |
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Post by brookie on May 3, 2024 23:41:15 GMT
Boeing's dead serious about this, aren't they?
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Post by no1novice on May 4, 2024 9:38:41 GMT
Boeing's dead serious about this, aren't they? Are any of them Co$? |
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Post by shellee on May 9, 2024 1:58:05 GMT
Boeing's dead serious about this, aren't they? Are any of them Co$? Thats exactly what I was wondering. |
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