Boeing: Dead whistleblower warned of safety breaches

BBC News— John Barnett had been giving a formal legal deposition against the plane manufacturer before his sudden death.

View from the Wing—Deadly Pattern Emerges At Boeing As Second Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead Amid Safety Scandal. Joshua Dean, a 45-year-old former quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems who had recently become a whistleblower about manufacturing defects on the Boeing 737 MAX, tragically passed away following a sudden illness. Boeing whistleblowers keep passing away.

Newsweek—Attorney for Dead Boeing Whistleblowers Speaks Out. An attorney who represented the two Boeing whistleblowers who died in recent months said that the men were "heroes."Brian Knowles told The New York Post: "These men were heroes. So are all the whistleblowers. They loved the company and wanted to help the company do better. They didn't speak out to be aggravating or for fame. They're raising concerns because people's lives are at stake."Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems turned whistleblower, died last...

Boing Boing—A 2nd Boeing whistleblower "coincidentally" dies — just weeks after 1st Boeing whistleblower died. 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...