A former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems who turned whistleblower has died after a sudden illness, his family announced on Tuesday.

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Dean's sudden death at the age of 45 was announced by his aunt and sister on social media on Tuesday. His mother wrote on Facebook that he had contracted pneumonia in April and suffered a stroke following an MSRA infection.

Let’s not turn into QAnon level conspiracy fuckwits here. He died of a natural illness as confirmed by his mother, and his family probably don’t want to have to deal with seeing everyone bringing him up in some deep state corpo assassination conspiracy bullshit.

You can hate Boeing for their shitty capitalist practices with resorting to this.

"Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern".

Alternatively...

"If I had a nickel for every Boeing whistle-blower that turned up dead recently, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice, right?"

There's no rest for Agent 747

This seems a lot more like an unfortunate coincidence than the first whistleblower, unless Boeing have resorted to bioterrorism to get rid of their witnesses, but I'd hate to be part of Boeing's PR team right now - huge court case where the witnesses against you keep dying doesn't look good even if you had nothing to do with it.

I doubt during Boeing board meetings they are planning assassinations, but I have no doubt there's a wealthy investor or board member willing to kill to prevent losing money.

His mother wrote on Facebook that he had contracted pneumonia in April and suffered a stroke following an MSRA infection.

I'd expect a very very through autopsy,

Fucking hell, why should anyone ever want to fly with Boeing again, if they need to pull this kind of mafia shit to cover up their crimes?

Is this whistle made of arsenic or something?

Putin be like bump it down a notch Boeing.

When you see in movies that the bad guy is bold AF and kills indiscriminately yet no-one seems to be doing nothing you think: meh, that is so unrealistic

yet here we are...

we just need a real life Liam Neeson that would kill all the bosses of Boeing, given that law is useless against the rich and powerful.

Lock up the executives this isn’t a coincidence

Edit: yeah, they died very suddenly from an infection and stroke. It’s not like they had cancer or anything. So my contention is wrong in this case. Leaving my comment up to memorialize my mistake.

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It appears they died from a “natural illness.” Before we go all conspiracy theory here let me remind everyone that a poor diagnosis sometimes LEADS to someone becoming a whistleblower. They are confronted with their own mortality and want to do some good before they go.

The death may not have been a result of the whistleblowing but may have been the cause of the whistleblowing.

Could be coincidence or could be murder. Either way bad time to be a Boeing whistleblower

"Hey how can we repair the recent damage to our reputation?"

"Murder somebody"

I definitely would be wary of having having any business with this company. Seems like a hazard to health.

well thats weird