Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly after claiming safety flaws ignored

A whistleblower who accused Boeing of ignoring safety flaws in the 737 MAX airplanes has died.

Joshua Dean, a former Spirit AeroSystems quality auditor, claimed he was fired for flagging concerns about lax standards at the company’s manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kansas.

His sudden death at the age of 45 on Tuesday came after suffering from a fast-spreading infection, according to his family and lawyer.

Dean’s lawyer Brian Knowles said it is a ‘loss to the aviation community and the flying public’.

Knowles told Al Jazeera: ‘He possessed tremendous courage to stand up for what he felt was true and right and raised quality and safety issues.

‘Aviation companies should encourage and incentivise those that do raise these concerns.

‘Otherwise, safety and quality are truly not these companies’ top priorities.’

Boeing came under fire for potentially fatal defects in its 737 MAX series.

The aircraft was involved in near-disaster when a door panel fell off of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a 737 MAX 9, mid-flight in January.

A hole in the side of a passenger plane. — It’s lucky no one died when a door panel blew off a Boeing airplane mid-flight (Picture: Reuters)

Passengers lost phones and clothes, and were nearly sucked out, when the panel was sucked out, causing the plane to depressurize.

Spirit AeroSystems had built the door panel.

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Ralph May 2, 2024 at 21:51

On Dr. McCullough’s substack a post regarding this incident stated:
“I wonder what caused the young and otherwise healthy man to fall so ill that he required hospitalization. Boeing’s defense department has a longstanding relationship with the Military Industrial Complex. I wonder—merely as an investigative hypothesis—if someone at Boeing was tempted to call upon an intelligence agency goon to get rid of the whistleblower.

I further wondered if Staphylococcus aureus has ever been a pathogen of interest for bio-weapons research, and I quickly came across a paper titled Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B as a Biological Weapon: Recognition, Management, and Surveillance of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin.”

As a prof of mine was fond of stating, “If there’s trout in the milk, you have to look.”