Another Whistle*blow*er who accused Boeing supplier of ignoring defects dies

[elnina]

Former Spirit AeroSystems employee Joshua Dean dies after sudden illness, stunned family says.
He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.

Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.

https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...tems-has-died/

[RetireinPA]

no kidding?

[xray731]

I saw the article this AM - will be good to hear more about this during the day.

[elnina]

If we hear anything....
The other whistleblower "suicide" wasn't clear either.

https://www.pinkvilla.com/trending/w...37-max-1301437

[Kristinas_Cap]

The MIC using KGB tactics?

[Mathguy]

I'd be curious how many whistle blowers have come forward.

After all, it's been 4+ years and if you take 50 random middle aged and older people, there are going to be some deaths in that timeframe.

I mean, hold on to your hats folks but all of the whistleblowers are going to die, every last one of them....eventually.

[Chuckity]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I'd be curious how many whistle blowers have come forward.

After all, it's been 4+ years and if you take 50 random middle aged and older people, there are going to be some deaths in that timeframe.

I mean, hold on to your hats folks but all of the whistleblowers are going to die, every last one of them....eventually.

There's about 30 of them.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by Chuckity

There's about 30 of them.

Thankyou. I'll assume that includes all of them, even at suppliers like the most recent guy.

Ok, so we have a dead 62 yo and a dead 45yo.

Just for arguments sake I'll use an average age of 50 at the time the whistle blowing started.

Male mortality for 4 years would be about 1 in 45.

So for a group of 30 over 4 years:

Chance of 0 deaths in group = 51%
1 death = 34%
2 deaths =11%
3 or more deaths = 4%

This is meant as a rough ballpark but essentially a 1/6 chance of having had 2 or more.

[lottamoxie]

Articles state the guy got pneumonia and then the dreaded MRSA infection when in the hospital, leading to his death. How did someone else do that to him?

[katharsis]

Quite a coincidence. The quotes below are from this mother, according to this article https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/12486...josh-dean-dead

" The doctor said he'd never seen anything like it before in his life. His lungs were just totally ... gummed up, and like a mesh over them."

"We're not sure what he died of," she said. "We know that he had a bunch of viruses. But you know, we don't know if somebody did something to him, or did he just get real sick."