John Barnett had been giving a formal legal deposition against the plane manufacturer before his sudden death.

A former Boeing employee, who was found dead in March, accused the company of “countless” violations of US law in testimony given just before his death.

John Barnett claimed the firm tried to “eliminate” quality inspections at a plant that makes 787 planes.

The former quality control manager had been giving a formal legal deposition against the plane manufacturer.

The transcript of Mr Barnett’s deposition has now been released by his lawyers. The lengthy document runs to more than 140 pages.

The bulk of Mr Barnett’s deposition focuses on the period from 2010 onwards, after he had moved from Boeing’s facility in Everett, Washington to what was then a brand-new factory in North Charleston.

  • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
    181·
    1 year ago

    1. his testimony was not over, he had another round the next day

    2. he said that he was not suicidal. He saw it coming.

    Until someone confesses, the group with the most motive is Boeing. Bag them all and make them squeal.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
        19·
        1 year ago

        What is the motive?

        Why are you acting like this is some impossible mystery that we’ll never understand? The motive is either “silencing him so he can’t reveal more”, “intimidating other potential whistleblowers”, or a combination of both. Is this some grand revelation to you, or are you deliberately acting like you’ve been dropped on your head every day since birth?

        and exactly who cares when money can make this go away?

        Yeah, we’re actively seeing how money has made all of Boeing’s problems go away. No investigations are happening, there could not be any issues if further whistleblowers step forward 🙄

        But no, murder will make everyone not care, really?

        Again, think about the motives for more than half a second, and you’ll see that the idea isn’t to “make everyone not care”.

          • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
            11·
            1 year ago

            You did not answer the question. What is the motive? You describe actions that can be taken, but to what end?

            Have you tried reading the sentence I wrote that starts with “the motive is”? Please explain to me why you consider that question to be valid, when I literally explicitly answer the question?

            I genuinely don’t think you have the intelligence required to understand the answer, since you didn’t understand it when I first gave it to you. You didn’t ask a clarifying question, you didn’t give a counter argument - you simply act like no answer was provided, even though you must have seen it the whole time you wrote your reply. Why? Why would someone ever choose to behave the way you do?