Boeing faces 10 more whistleblowers after two die and pressure mounts on manufacturer: ‘People’s lives are at stake’
Barnett, who had worked for Boeing for 32 years, was found dead in his Dodge Ram truck holding a silver pistol in his hand in the parking lot of his South Carolina hotel after he failed to show up for the second part of his testimony for a bombshell lawsuit against the company. “These men were heroes. So are all the whistleblowers. They loved the company and wanted to help the company do better,” Knowles told The Post.
Whistleblower Joshua Dean, 45, died unexpectedly from a fast-moving mystery illness last week – the second Boeing whistleblower to die suddenly within two months. Picture: Facebook / Taylor Rae RobertsKnowles pointed out that the Charleston, SC police are still wrapping up their investigation of Barnett’s death — and that it may take some weeks for tests to reveal more about Dean’s passing.
“We are saddened by Mr. Barnett’s passing and our thoughts continue to be with his family and friends,” the statement said. “It’s an unstable company right now from the top to the bottom,” Pierson told The Post. “Senior corporate leadership is so fixated on not admitting the truth that they can’t admit anything.”
He broke his silence two years later to warn that Boeing cut corners to speed its 787 Dreamliners into service and in numerous interviews described how he had complained internally to the company about what he claimed were serious safety flaws.After his apparent suicide in March, Boeing employees told The Post that Barnett had made “powerful enemies” and one said workers were skeptical that Barnett’s death was suicide.
“Boeing was a Seattle company. Back in the day a typical Boeing CEO was a hyper-midwestern farm boy who saw airplanes as a kid and went off to Seattle to conquer the world,” Craig Jenks, who runs the Airline/Aircraft Projects Inc. consultancy, told The Post.
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