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May 2, 2024

Another Boeing Whistleblower Has Died
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A former employee of Spirit Aero Systems who blew the whistle on the
Boeing supplier's manufacturing and quality control issues has died.
Forty-five-year-old Joshua Dean died of a sudden illness after he
contracted an MRSA infection and pneumonia. Dean had accused his former
employer Spirit Aero Systems of firing him in retaliation for speaking
out against the company, including in a shareholder lawsuit last year.
Spirit Aero Systems built the door panel that blew out of the Alaska
Airlines 737 MAX 9 in January.

Joshua Dean's death comes two months after Boeing whistleblower John
Barnett was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound shortly after
giving evidence in a lawsuit against Boeing.


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