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Boeing whistleblower found dead in hotel
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Posted By: mc squared, 3/11/2024 10:44:31 PM

A Boeing whistleblower was found dead in his truck 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, a report said Monday. John Barnett, 62, had raised safety concerns at the airline’s factories and provided his first testimony just days before he was found dead from an apparent “self-inflicted” gunshot wound, the Charleston County coroner told the BBC. Barnett’s attorney, Brian Knowles, told TMZ that he had explicit doubt about the circumstances of his death, and called the self-inflicted gunshot “alleged.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Maggie2u 3/11/2024 10:54:41 PM (No. 1675706)
The Department of Justice is investigating Boeing because they refuse to release the names of those who worked on the jet that the panel blew out last month. Now this, the hits just keep coming. Bye-bye Boeing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 3/11/2024 10:58:04 PM (No. 1675707)
One can only speculate that Barnett was troubled by blowing the whistle on Boeing or there were other bad personal things going on in his life. But there is always the lesser possibility that he was Epsteined.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Vesicant 3/11/2024 10:59:57 PM (No. 1675708)
Does Shrillary Clinton own stock in Boeing?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chumley 3/11/2024 11:06:08 PM (No. 1675710)
Everyplace I ever worked made us go through whistlebower protection classes every year. Only a fool believed them. Blow a whistle and you will be reassigned or fired for some other reason, after a respectable waiting period. Or in this case you will be suicided. Yes, the system is crooked. But thats the system.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 3/11/2024 11:53:54 PM (No. 1675722)
Hotel parking lot, in your truck. Odd place to commit suicide. Good place to ambush someone.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: PeasantNumberThree 3/12/2024 12:15:26 AM (No. 1675726)
Boeing started out being a high-quality airplane manufacturer. But then the bean-counters took control away from the engineers and Boeing's been going down ever since. They moved the Boeing HQ from Seattle to Chicago (presumably to get away from their engineers and factories). Then they moved the HQ again from Chicago to Crystal City (DC area) to be in "proximity to our customers and stakeholders." (i.e., the Federal Government). And even further away from those pesky engineers.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JimBob 3/12/2024 2:06:49 AM (No. 1675758)
Suicide? More like Arkancide!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Encore 3/12/2024 8:24:14 AM (No. 1675887)
Does this signify the death of corporate integrity in America.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: VietVet68 3/12/2024 9:09:41 AM (No. 1675919)
I guess getting him to Fort Marcy Park was too much of a hassle.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 3/12/2024 10:39:29 AM (No. 1675987)
I offloaded my Boeing stock when I read that several of the key officers were former GE employees who presumably had a hand in running GE into the ditch.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: MickTurn 3/12/2024 12:31:58 PM (No. 1676089)
BoeingCide
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Reply 12 - Posted by: dbdiva 3/12/2024 2:21:08 PM (No. 1676138)
I wouldn't be surprised at all if we see an epidemic of "suicides" in the coming months.
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