Second Boeing whistleblower dies within 2 months.

[FuzzyRabbit]

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 after a short and sudden illness.

Dean, 45, lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. Known as Josh, he had been healthy and was known for a healthy lifestyle.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/

[Blue Owl]

1. Mmmm HMMMM........

[2naSalit]

2. Imagine that!

[LoisB]

3. Things that make you go "hmmmmm?"

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Okay

NOW there is something fishy going on. Prove me wrong.

[maxsolomon]

6. Prove you're right:

Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago. He was intubated and developed pneumonia and then a serious bacterial infection, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, or MRSA.

His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he was airlifted from Wichita to a hospital in Oklahoma City, Parsons said. There he was put on an ECMO machine, which circulates and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body, taking over heart and lung function when a patient’s organs don’t work on their own.

How did the murderer give him a MRSA?

[Traurigkeit]

11. IF there is an investigation, two weeks and earlier prior to entering hospital is the window of where a murderer

would have entered the picture.

Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago

[maxsolomon]

14. Do you know how to give someone Pneumonia, then a MRSA?

I don't.

Maybe they're contracting it out to Rusher.

[niyad]

17. He, an apparently perfectly healthy man, suddenly had breathing

difficulties so severe he was hospitalized, with all the attendant horrors that came about. Nobody was saying he was "gIven" MRSA, all of us can read the article, which says he contracted it in the hospital. "correcting" or "contradicting" something that was not said is not impressive.

[maxsolomon]

20. Sorry, I remain a skeptic.

I don't believe it is likely that Boeing's management would contract out the murder of whistleblowers.

At the end of the month, I'll have the opportunity to talk to several friends that are active or recently retired long-time Boeing employees. I'll ask if they think management is capable of such skullduggery.

I also have a neighbor who became a Boeing whistleblower after the MAX crashes. He still works there, AFAIK. He has not been murdered in some exotic way.

[markodochartaigh]

19. MRSA is incredibly common in the general population.

It is usually transmitted by physical contact with a person or object which is contaminated. But, airborne transmission is possible. There are different strains of MRSA and an individual's immune system is a huge variable. It seems like it would be difficult to infect an non-hospitalized individual's nasopharynx without their knowledge, but a close reading of the passage you quoted makes it seem that he developed MRSA as a nosocomial, or hospital acquired, infection. This would be fairly common.

I think that the question is why did he develop trouble breathing. I've been a registered nurse since 1983. When I worked on the High Plains it was very common for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to have trouble breathing during spring storms with the change in barometric pressure from large storms. It certainly does seem an odd way for an assassin to work.



https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11405862/

[TBF]

5. well that's convenient

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[Daylily]

7. Amazing

I am amazed. This is terribly unusual. Hope there’s an autopsy.

[Traurigkeit]

8. Boeing doing what TSF wants ... shot in daylight on fifth ave.

[orangecrush]

10. He wasn't shot

It was a staph infection

[Traurigkeit]

12. TSF wants to get away with murder.

[orangecrush]

9. The first one shot himself

The second developed a drug resistant staph infection.

I don't know how you could intentionally give that to someone

[Ford_Prefect]

16. I don't know how it would be done either. But the kinds of money and power people involved in this have access to

resources we can only imagine. This is way out of the bone saw league. If the Russian's hit squad can deliver cesium through casual contact, I think there are people on our side of the water who are similarly expert and capable. Some of them have specialized aircraft built to order by Boeing and may have secrets worth keeping themselves.

The point is not whether it could be done. The timing argues that it might be suspicious. Cui bono reasonably applies here. That he died is not a guarantee that malicious acts were involved but it does raise the question whether they could be.

Billions of dollars in profit, a decades long industry dominating history, combined with a future of the same at risk amount to powerful motivations IMO.

[niyad]

18. See post 17.

[chouchou]

13. What happened to Bob? "He had a sudden illness"

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, If you don't mind, What illness was it? "A freight train"

[Bev54]

15. Who is head at Boeing? Is he of Russian descent?