John Barnett, the Boeing quality assurance whistleblower who was found dead in his car from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound, said "I'm not going to se

John Barnett, the Boeing quality assurance whistleblower who was found dead in his car from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound, said "I'm not going to set foot on an airplane today." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boe... "They hire these people off the street, dude ... fucking flipping burgers for a living, making sandwiches at Subway," one mechanic marveled of his colleagues; another regaled the narrator with tales of co-workers who came to work high on "coke and painkillers and weed" because no one had ever had a urine test. Asked if they would fly the 787 Dreamliner; just five of 15 answered yes, and even the positive responses did Boeing no favors: "I probably would, but I have kind of a death wish, too." https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/ https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-2...