Boeing Whistleblower Conspiracy Unveiled: Shocking Details Revealed
The Boeing conspiracy starts with the death of John Barnett
From January 2024 to May 2024, Boeing planes have experienced a string of issues. On Jan. 5, 2024, a “Boeing 737 Max 9 lost a door plug at 16,000 feet on a flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California,” per the Daily Mail. Two months later, a gear collapsed caused a 737 Max 8 to slide down a runway in Houston. Two days later, a wheel fell off a Boeing 777-200 after taking off from San Francisco, which resulted in several cars being crushed.
Those examples are just the tip of a deeply troubled iceberg for Boeing, which was charged by the Department of Justice with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. in January 2021, reported ABC News. Amid this chaos, 32 whistleblowers have come forward with complaints about the company since it was charged. Two of those whistleblowers are now dead. The Boeing conspiracy wheels are turning and are probably going to fall off. Here’s what we know.
Joshua Dean is the second Boeing whistleblower to suddenly die
Less than two months later, another Boeing whistleblower would also pass away. Joshua Dean came from a family of Boeing employees, per NPR. His father and grandfather worked at a factory in Wichita, Kan. where Dean would later take a job as an auditor. While there he learned that several employees were aware that something was rotten in Denmark.
Dean told the outlet that Boeing would throw celebratory pizza parties for the employees to congratulate them for lowering defects. “But we’re not lowering defects,” said Dean. “We just ain’t reporting them.” When Dean flagged improperly drilled holes in fuselages, he was fired in April 2023. “I think they were sending out a message to anybody else,” said Dean. “If you are too loud, we will silence you.”
A year after being fired, Dean died on April 30, 2024. The family of the 45-year-old former Boeing employee announced on social media that he had “quickly fallen into critical condition after being diagnosed with a MRSA bacterial infection,” via NPR. Both Barnett and Dean were being represented by lawyer Brian Knowles who remarked on Dean’s courage for speaking out. “Aviation companies should encourage and incentivize those that do raise these concerns,” said Knowles.