Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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02/05/2024 | Spirit AeroSystems (Supplier Of Boeing) | Joshua Dean, a 45-year old whistleblower who alleged he was fired in retaliation for flagging lax standards and ignoring defects in the production of the 737 MAX has died after a sudden illness. | Wichita, Kansas, USA | Al Jazzera, The Guardian | Deaths | |
16/04/2024 | Boeing | Whistleblower has urged Boeing to ground every 787 Dreamliner jet worldwide after warning they are at risk of premature failure, alleging that the manufacturing giant took shortcuts to reduce production bottlenecks while making it. He also raised issues about the production of the 777, another wide-body jet. | Washington D.C., DC, USA | The Guardian | Consumer Deception, Negligence | |
12/03/2024 | Boeing | John Barnett, a former quality manager at Boeing who became a prominent whistleblower and raised concerns over the planemaker’s production line has been found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | South Carolina, USA | The Guardian | Deaths |