Joshua Dean, 45, of Wichita, Kansas, worked as a quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems' flagship manufacturing site, which supplies Boeing with various plane parts — including the door plug that popped off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX flight, forcing a rough landing in January. Dean, who held a degree in mechanical engineering and had decades of experience, was among the first whistleblowers to claim that Spirit had turned a blind eye to defects on the controversial airliner. Dean died...
Another whistleblower who raised safety concerns about production practices related to Boeing has died. Joshua Dean, who previously worked as a quality auditor at the plane manufacturer’s supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, died Tuesday as the result of a “sudden, fast-spreading infection,” the Seattle Times reports. Dean, who is described as being a “healthy” 45-year-old who was known for having a “healthy lifestyle,” succumbed to the sudden onset of a bacterial infection known as...
A former Boeing employee who called out the aircraft manufacturer for safety issues has died, less than three months after the suicide of another whistleblower. Joshua Dean, 45, died after a brief illness of the flu, pneumonia and MRSA. He had worked as an auditor for a company that supplied Boeing with parts for the 737 MAX planes and alleges managers failed to act after he notified them of defects. His attorney also represented another whistleblower who committed suicide about three months...
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Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit
A Boeing whistleblower who raised concerns over safety issues with the 737 Max has died suddenly, it has been confirmed.
(The Center Square) — Rep. Mesha Mainor, R-Atlanta, is suing top Fulton County officials, including the district attorney prosecuting former President Donald Trump, saying they conspired to help a former campaign worker who stalked the state lawmaker. Mainor filed her lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court, naming the county, the county's ethics board, County Commissioner Marvin Arrington and District Attorney Fani Willis. Mainor named Arrington and Willis both individually and...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has put into effect a bold new campaign strategy that appears to be working wonders, according to a new report. Willis, the Georgia prosecutor spearheading her state’s election racketeering case against the former president, isn’t talking about Donald Trump. “As she runs for a second term, the veteran prosecutor is far more likely to talk about her office’s anti-recidivism efforts and a youth mentorship program than she is the former president,”...
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems
At this point, it might be an understatement to refer to Fani Willis as the embattled district attorney of Fulton County, Ga. She’s had a harsh spotlight on her since she decided to take on Donald Trump and other co-defendants in her investigation, but the
Attorney Christian Wise Smith, a Democrat running against Fani Willis for Fulton County district attorney, said on Friday that his rival's focus on former President Donald Trump's election interference case leaves people "vulnerable" and "many priorities neglected" in Georgia's largest county.Willis, also a Democrat, has become a prominent national figure due to leading the investigation that led to indictments against Trump and 18 of his allies for allegedly attempting to overturn Georgia's...
Democrats had set their sights on impeaching Donald Trump long before he assumed the presidency. The media was openly speculating how Democrats might impeach him if he won months before the election. Once they had control of the House in 2019, it was only a matter of time before they ginned up a pretext for impeaching him. Bizarrely, they launched an impeachment inquiry over a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.