A second Boeing whistleblower has suddenly died “after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.” Bit of a coincidence, don’t you think?
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died (Seattle Times)
“If it’s Boeing I ain’t going”?
Considering they’ve made probably more than half the commercial aircraft flying today, what’s coming out in the news about Boeing’s transformation since their acquisition of Mcdonnell-Douglas is frightening. Some people are even referring to the merger as a testament to the genius of MD management, because “they bought Boeing with Boeing’s money”. The Seattle giant went from being an engineering-first aircraft company to an accountant-first corporation that happened to make aircraft, and that’s when things started going wrong. Even the headquarter move to Chicago was, in hindsight, a big tell that at the corporate level engineering was no longer job #1. But it gets worse.
Suicide Mission (The American Prospect)
See also: The Strange Death of a Boeing Whistleblower (The American Prospect)