Loading ...Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in Charleston After Break in Depositions
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.
“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.”
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU BELIEVE THE SUICIDE STORY
Holy Fook….this is so blatant now
“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.”
This is very serious. They are like Big Pharma. Profits more important than killing people.
If so, Boeing is fooked. Nobody will fly in their planes.
Stories I read didn’t mention two things.
Was a gun found at the vehicle (as you’d expect if suicide)?
And was it registered to him, or recently bought?
IIRC, he traveled to SC for the depo, so he probably didn’t travel with one.