Anonymous ID: 404edf March 11, 2024, 2:53 p.m. No.20553266   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3268 >>3270 >>3286 >>3287 >>3506

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>https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1767299166781268448

 

needs more details

so far, just one response - with NO SAUCE, but 'dasting:

 

https://twitter.com/Chimacoeche/status/1767299740222308708

 

Chima Echefule

@Chimacoeche

John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

 

In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

 

Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett's passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.

 

It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" on 9 March and police were investigating.

 

Mr Barnett had worked for the US plane giant for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017 on health grounds.

 

From 2010, he worked as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant making the 787 Dreamliner, a state-of-the-art airliner used mainly on long-haul routes.

 

In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBC that under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production line.

 

He also said he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems, which could mean one in four breathing masks would not work in an emergency.

 

He said soon after starting work in South Carolina he had become concerned that the push to get new aircraft built meant the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised, something the company denied.

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Anonymous ID: 404edf March 11, 2024, 3:13 p.m. No.20553360   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3368 >>3382 >>3405 >>3414

>>20553231

GENERAL COMMENT ON ALL THE BOEING BAD NEWS:

I don't know whether Boeing is becoming corrupted, but can't help but wonder whether a lot of the bad news could be a setup.

Boeing and AirBus have had an ongoing conflict for DECADES because Boeing's philosophy has been to let the PILOT fly the plane (or at least have the final say) whereas AirBus places its confidence more in the COMPUTER.

https://www.thrustflight.com/boeing-vs-airbus/

 

This sounds exactly like the argument that HUMAN BEINGS ARE SOVEREIGN vs MACHINES ARE SUPERIOR.

where have we heard that before?

 

Also, in 2021, Boeing reversed its policy of requiring US employees to be vaxxed - something unpopular with DS types.

suppose other big companies also "go rogue"?

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive-boeing-suspends-vaccination-requirement-us-based-employees-internal-2021-12-17/

 

It's possible that Boeing has been specifically targeted and subsequently INFILTRATED in order to destroy it - - in which case, the focus should be on what makes that kind of infiltration possible.

 

QUESTION:

is Boeing really as bad as they look or is this just a ploy to destroy their reputation, so there's no company making airplanes that let the PILOT fly the plane?

Anonymous ID: 404edf March 11, 2024, 3:20 p.m. No.20553414   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3506

>>20553360

>>20553231

>>20553286

 

from qrbunker/end:

 

Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in Charleston After Break in Depositions

March 10th, 2024 @ 12:52 pm

 

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his truck at a hotel in Charleston, South Carolina after a break in depositions in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit.

 

That’s according to Barnett’s lawyer Brian Knowles.

 

In an email to Corporate Crime Reporter, Knowles wrote that Barnett “was supposed to do day three of his deposition here in Charleston on his AIR21 case.” (AIR21 refers to a federal law that provides whistleblower protection for employees in the aviation industry.)

 

“Today is a tragic day,” Knowles wrote. “John had been back and forth for quite some time getting prepared. The defense examined him for their allowed seven hours under the rules on Thursday. I cross examined him all day yesterday (Friday) and did not finish. We agreed to continue this morning at 10 a.m. (co-counsel) Rob (Turkewitz) kept calling this morning and his (Barnett’s) phone would go to voicemail. We then asked the hotel to check on him. They found him in his truck dead from an ‘alleged’ self-inflicted gunshot. We drove to the hotel and spoke with the police and the coroner.”

 

For almost three decades, John Barnett was a quality manager at Boeing. For 28 of those years, he was with Boeing in Everett, Washington.

 

Barnett loved Boeing. He loved Boeing planes. He loved his work. Then in 2010, Barnett was transferred to Boeing’s new plant in Charleston, South Carolina. That’s where Boeing builds the 787 Dreamliner. And things started going downhill.

 

“The new leadership didn’t understand processes,” Barnett told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview in 2019. (See — John Barnett on Why He Won’t Fly on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, (Corporate Crime Reporter, November 29, 2019). “They brought them in from other areas of the company. The new leadership team – from my director down – they all came from St. Louis, Missouri. They said they were all buddies there.”

 

“That entire team came down. They were from the military side. My impression was their mindset was – we are going to do it the way we want to do it. Their motto at the time was – we are in Charleston and we can do anything we want.”

 

“They started pressuring us to not document defects, to work outside the procedures, to allow defective material to be installed without being corrected. They started bypassing procedures and not maintaining configurement control of airplanes, not maintaining control of non conforming parts – they just wanted to get the planes pushed out the door and make the cash register ring.”

 

Barnett had been speaking to reporters recently about Boeing production issues, including the incident involving the mid-air blow out of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5, causing decompression of the airplane.

 

“Once you understand what’s happening inside of Boeing, you’ll see why we’re seeing these kinds of issues,” Barnett told ABC News in Australia in late January.

 

https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-charleston-after-break-in-depositions/