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Posted on 12/06/2025 10:45:20 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A total of 32 individuals who were working with Boeing had complained to regulatory authorities that there had been retaliations against those who raised safety concerns against the company. Two of them have died recently.
Joshua Dean, who was a quality auditor for Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier of Boeing, passed away. Despite his healthy lifestyle, Dean went to a hospital a couple of weeks before his death as he was having trouble breathing…He developed pneumonia and a bacterial infection.
Dean had complained to the FAA on “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line…”
Before Dean, another former Boeing employee-turned-whistleblower, 62-year-old John Barnett, was found dead in the US days after he gave evidence against the company's management.
The BBC had then revealed that in one of his interviews, Barnett had said regarding Boeing, "Under pressure workers deliberately fit sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production" and there are "serious problems with the oxygen system".
"In some cases, sub-standard parts had even been removed from scrap bins and fitted to planes that were being built to prevent delays on the production line…”
A Washington Post report from 2019 reveals that a Federal Aviation Authority auditor had found a subcontractor of the company forging certificates for cargo doors for a huge number of 777. The auditor had alleged that this was going on for years.
In another case, the company's workers would leave tools close to cables controlling the aircraft's movement, thus risking safety of the hundreds of passengers onboard. Some would also install wires improperly in 787’s…
In April, Sam Salehpour, another Boeing whisteblower, told the US Congress that when he flagged safety issues to the company, it had asked him to "shut up".
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Why kill them after they blew the whistle? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to kill them before they blew?
One of those curiouser and couriser things. Nobody seemed the least bit interested when it all happend.
Since the 737 MAX crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia, Boeing has been sued and fined for billions of dollars - plus - Boeing stock has lost $150 billion of market cap.
In 2018, several USA pilots pointed out that the Indonesia crash would have been prevented, if the two Muslim pilots had switched off one device - AFTER - the automated MCAS "nose down" commands had started.
The 737 MAX had 60,000 incident free take offs in Europe, Japan, and English speaking countries - BEFORE - the 2018 Indonesia crash.
As the country song says;
“When the money gets big
People get hurt”
One actually did switch off the MCAS, then he switched it back on and the plane crashed. It was a bad initial implementation of the system that well trained pilots should have been able to handle.
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