Boeing, the second whistleblower is also dead: he was 45 years old. He said: “I reported safety problems and was fired.”

On March 12, John Barnett, a former employee of the US aerospace company Boeing who had reported violations of safety standards in the company’s airliner production processes, was found dead. Now another former Boeing employee who had denounced the production defects of the 737 Max, Joshua Dean, […]

It was March 12th John Barnett, a former employee of the US aerospace company Boeing who had reported violations of safety standards in the production processes of the company’s airliners, was found dead. Now another former Boeing employee who had denounced the production defects of the 737 Max, Joshua Dean, after a short illness as reported by the Guardian. Dean, 45, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, had filed a complaint with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alleging that “quality management of the 737 production line was grossly and grossly incorrect” at Spirit.

Accidents – In 2018 and 2019, two 737 Max planes were involved in fatal crashes that killed 346 people. The two accidents – in March 2019 and October 2018 – led to the stop. It later emerged that “Boeing had known about the safety system problems since 2016: before it was certified to fly.” But recently there have been a series of accidents – fortunately without fatalities – which have reignited attention on the company. Without forgetting that Boeing’s 737 Max was “failed” in 33 checks out of 89 after the checks requested after an accident recorded in January when a door exploded in flight.

The death of the whistleblower – Dean was fired from Spirit last year and filed a complaint with the Department of Labor alleging that his firing 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. The man was represented by the same law firm as Barnett the other informant found dead in March of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Barnett had spent nearly three decades at Boeing, and in 2019 he told the New York Times that he had found “clusters or shards of metal” hanging from flight control cables that could have caused “catastrophic” damage if they had penetrated the wires. U.S. regulators have been investigating Boeing for months.