According to the New York Post, former Boeing employee John Barnett was found dead in his car in the parking lot of the hotel where he was staying in South Carolina yesterday. Barnett’s body was found after he did not appear in court while he was expected to testify in the lawsuit filed against the Boeing company.
EXECUTED
In a statement to the BBC, a forensic officer from the Charleston area noted that Barnett, who drew attention to security violations in Boeing company’s factories, was found in his vehicle “with a gun shot to his head.”
STATEMENT FROM THE COMPANY
Boeing announced that it was saddened by the death of Barnett, who worked for the company until 2017.
HE SAID IT WAS A PRODUCTION ERROR
In 2019, John Barnett claimed that there was a manufacturing defect in most of the systems that automatically turn on the oxygen masks on the passenger seats in case the cabin pressure suddenly drops in the “787 Dreamliner” type passenger aircraft.
HE DETECTED ERRORS
Barnett, who worked at Boeing for 32 years, stated that while he was working at the company’s factory in South Carolina in 2016, in the quality control tests he conducted on 787 Dreamliners, he found that 25 percent of the emergency oxygen systems were not working correctly and oxygen masks were not coming off at the right time.
Barnett noted that he requested further testing to understand the manufacturing defect in the systems in question, but that his request was blocked by Boeing executives.
Stating that he filed a complaint with the US Federal Aviation Commission (FAA) in 2017, Barnett claimed that the institution did not take steps for a solution. (AA)
