• odium@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Not just one, but two whistleblowers in two months. And one of them said that if he dies soon, it would be a Boeing assassination a few days before he died.

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      6 months ago

      well, to be clear, he said if he committed suicide, that he didn’t commit suicide. Now i dont know much about suicide because i haven’t done it. But if i were to do it, and i was being sued by a large company, i would probably say that they did it to me anyway.

      Mostly just because it would be funny, but also because it be partially true, given what probably led up to the suicide itself.

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      6 months ago

      Someone claiming to be a family friend said that’s what he said, after-the-fact. That part of the whole first whistleblower story is far from rock-solid.

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        6 months ago

        John was also in the process of deposition for an appeal to a case he already lost in 2019. If Boeing wanted to kill him they would have before the 2019 trial.

        And by the time he complained in 2017, both 787 and 737 Max that he was spilling details on had been flying for years. The FAA investigated and found a decent chunk of the issues had already been addressed. So it wasn’t even timely information by the time John spoke up.

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          6 months ago

          and if i were a large multinational company trying to kill someone, i would probably do it at the most inconvenient point possible, because that would be murder, and murder would be illegal. But that’s just me.