> He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel. He was subsequently found dead in his truck in the hotel car park.
Does anyone else find those circumstances suspicious?
Just remember, Epstein’s death was called “self-inflicted,” too.
USA getting more like Ruzzia every day.
hmm nothing suspicious at all about his death…
You’re shitting me!? Boeing decided it will be cheaper to have an open criminal investigation than deal with truth…
So I guess the U.S. public is just going to start accepting this now, huh? From Epstein, to this guy – ya’ll should be in the streets.
Good thing the Boeing management is not full of people who definitely should be on the hook for 300+ counts of involuntary manslaughter. That would make this case suspicious.
One more reason not to in a flight a 737 max.
If it’s truly a gunshot suicide, they would hopefully be able to prove that this individual owned the gun used, or purchased it himself recently.
damn you, putin
He probably fell out of a wobbly airplane door.
Sounds like he got suicided.
Epstein and this guy both killed themselves. Jeesh…
I’m not saying it was Boeing. But they are comfortable with making decisions that get people killed. It was aliens.
Bill Barr will investigate and conclude it was self inflicted
Guess things weren’t Boeing well for him
Hypernormalization. Corporations and people in power know we know they lie and cheat and steal and they’re gonna keep doing shit like this until we’re completely indifferent to it
Not just dead…. shot. He was found shot dead….
“John Barnett was a former quality control manager at Boeing
He…told the BBC that workers had failed to follow procedures intended to track components through the factory, allowing defective components to go missing.
He said in some cases, sub-standard parts had even been removed from scrap bins and fitted to planes that were being built to prevent delays on the production line.
He also claimed that tests on emergency oxygen systems due to be fitted to the 787 showed a failure rate of 25%, meaning that one in four could fail to deploy in a real-life emergency.
Mr Barnett said he had alerted managers to his concerns, but no action had been taken.
Boeing denied his assertions. However, a 2017 review by the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), did uphold some of Mr Barnett’s concerns.
It established that the location of at least 53 “non-conforming” parts in the factory was unknown, and that they were considered lost. Boeing was ordered to take remedial action.
On the oxygen cylinders issue, the company said that in 2017 it had “identified some oxygen bottles received from the supplier that were not deploying properly”. But it denied that any of them were actually fitted on aircraft.
After retiring, he embarked on a long-running legal action against the company.
He accused it of denigrating his character and hampering his career because of the issues he pointed out – charges rejected by Boeing.
At the time of his death, Mr Barnett had been in Charleston for legal interviews linked to that case.
Last week, he gave a formal deposition in which he was questioned by Boeing’s lawyers, before being cross-examined by his own counsel.
He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel.
He was subsequently found dead in his truck in the hotel car park.”
Straight out of Michael Clayton.
I’m thinking it might be time to reign Boeing in. P.S. I’m not planning on any suicide tonight or in the future.
I’m sure this will be thoroughly investigated…
Police said he shot himself twice in the back of the head
So we’re Russia now
Just imagine the chilling effect on future whistleblower regardless of the outcome of any investigation into this. Even if Boing were to come out entirely innocent, the “best” case scenario is that this ordeal was so harrowing it left this poor man feeling like there was no other alternative.
The worst case scenario is much worse.
In either reality, I’d be deeply worried to bother raising safety concerns at a major U.S. manufacturer given this whole affair. This is tragic at every level.
So if Boeing had this man killed will the company be charged with murder since it’s considered a person? In which case, how would the death sentence or life in prison effect a corporation?
It’s them versus us.
Dead in his truck in the hotel car park with “self-inflicted” wounds.
Poor man was assassinated to keep quiet. After all, dead man don’t tell tales.
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> He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel. He was subsequently found dead in his truck in the hotel car park.
Does anyone else find those circumstances suspicious?
Just remember, Epstein’s death was called “self-inflicted,” too.
USA getting more like Ruzzia every day.
hmm nothing suspicious at all about his death…
You’re shitting me!? Boeing decided it will be cheaper to have an open criminal investigation than deal with truth…
So I guess the U.S. public is just going to start accepting this now, huh? From Epstein, to this guy – ya’ll should be in the streets.
Good thing the Boeing management is not full of people who definitely should be on the hook for 300+ counts of involuntary manslaughter. That would make this case suspicious.
One more reason not to in a flight a 737 max.
If it’s truly a gunshot suicide, they would hopefully be able to prove that this individual owned the gun used, or purchased it himself recently.
damn you, putin
He probably fell out of a wobbly airplane door.
Sounds like he got suicided.
Epstein and this guy both killed themselves. Jeesh…
I’m not saying it was Boeing. But they are comfortable with making decisions that get people killed. It was aliens.
Bill Barr will investigate and conclude it was self inflicted
Guess things weren’t Boeing well for him
Hypernormalization. Corporations and people in power know we know they lie and cheat and steal and they’re gonna keep doing shit like this until we’re completely indifferent to it
Not just dead…. shot. He was found shot dead….
“John Barnett was a former quality control manager at Boeing
He…told the BBC that workers had failed to follow procedures intended to track components through the factory, allowing defective components to go missing.
He said in some cases, sub-standard parts had even been removed from scrap bins and fitted to planes that were being built to prevent delays on the production line.
He also claimed that tests on emergency oxygen systems due to be fitted to the 787 showed a failure rate of 25%, meaning that one in four could fail to deploy in a real-life emergency.
Mr Barnett said he had alerted managers to his concerns, but no action had been taken.
Boeing denied his assertions. However, a 2017 review by the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), did uphold some of Mr Barnett’s concerns.
It established that the location of at least 53 “non-conforming” parts in the factory was unknown, and that they were considered lost. Boeing was ordered to take remedial action.
On the oxygen cylinders issue, the company said that in 2017 it had “identified some oxygen bottles received from the supplier that were not deploying properly”. But it denied that any of them were actually fitted on aircraft.
After retiring, he embarked on a long-running legal action against the company.
He accused it of denigrating his character and hampering his career because of the issues he pointed out – charges rejected by Boeing.
At the time of his death, Mr Barnett had been in Charleston for legal interviews linked to that case.
Last week, he gave a formal deposition in which he was questioned by Boeing’s lawyers, before being cross-examined by his own counsel.
He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel.
He was subsequently found dead in his truck in the hotel car park.”
Straight out of Michael Clayton.
I’m thinking it might be time to reign Boeing in. P.S. I’m not planning on any suicide tonight or in the future.
I’m sure this will be thoroughly investigated…
Police said he shot himself twice in the back of the head
So we’re Russia now
Just imagine the chilling effect on future whistleblower regardless of the outcome of any investigation into this. Even if Boing were to come out entirely innocent, the “best” case scenario is that this ordeal was so harrowing it left this poor man feeling like there was no other alternative.
The worst case scenario is much worse.
In either reality, I’d be deeply worried to bother raising safety concerns at a major U.S. manufacturer given this whole affair. This is tragic at every level.
So if Boeing had this man killed will the company be charged with murder since it’s considered a person? In which case, how would the death sentence or life in prison effect a corporation?
It’s them versus us.
Dead in his truck in the hotel car park with “self-inflicted” wounds.
Poor man was assassinated to keep quiet. After all, dead man don’t tell tales.