Good morning and welcome back. Here's an eyebrow razor.
A second Boeing whistleblower now dead after experiencing A brief
illness.
This comes after Joshua Dean expressed concerns over manufacturing issues
with the companies 737 Max planes.
Madeline Rivera is live with the latest on this Madeline.
Hey, good morning guy. Joshua Dean's family says this all
happened very quickly.
The 45 year old died Tuesday after an agonizing 2
weeks in critical critical condition.
Rather. His aunt tells the Seattle Times Dean started having
trouble breathing.
He was intubated, got pneumonia and then MRSA before he
died.
Doctors were considering amputating his hands and feet,
but he was too weak for surgery.
His attorney says Josh's passing is a loss to the
aviation community and the flying public.
He possessed tremendous courage to stand up for what he
felt was true and right.
And race, quality and safety issues.
Dean used to work as a quality inspector for Spirit
Aero Systems,
a Boeing supplier. He was fired in April 2023.
He said it was in retaliation for flagging safety concerns
regarding the 737 Max plane.
Dean was mentioned as part of a shareholder lawsuit against
Spirit in which he alleged Spirit would throw pizza parties
to celebrate a drop in the number of problems.
But he said Spirit undercounted the defects instead of actually
reducing them.
The death of Dean comes just weeks after the death
of John Barnett.
Barnett was a Boeing whistleblower who local authorities say shot
and killed himself March 9th.
Barnett was also in the middle of a lawsuit claiming
he was wrongfully terminated.
By Boeing after accusing the company of covering up defects
for the 787 Dreamliner.
Blowing in spirit are under a lot of scrutiny after
a door panel flew off in Alaska Airlines plane in
midair in January.
In March, the FAA gave Boeing 90 days to come
to come up with an action plan to fix quality
control issues.
Brian. All right, Maddie, thank you.