by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Boeing executives vowed to “permanently silence” whistleblower John Barnett before his suspicious death, his grieving family claims in a bombshell lawsuit against the aviation giant.
The 62-year-old was found dead in his truck outside a Holiday Inn in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 2024, just days before he was set to testify against Boeing in a suit he’d filed over safety concerns.
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Ruled a suicide, his note reportedly read “f**k Boeing.” Now, his family’s wrongful death suit in South Carolina accuses Boeing of harassing and intimidating their 32-year veteran employee after he spoke out, alleging a pattern of retaliation that drove him to his breaking point.
Dailymail.co.uk reports: Barnett was employed as a quality manager at the airline for 32 years before he retired in 2017.
In 2019, he went public with his allegations against the company, claiming under-pressure workers were deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the assembly line.
The suit states: ‘The weight of years of harassment, abuse and humiliation became too much for John to bear, and he took his own life.’
‘Boeing may not have pulled the trigger, but Boeing’s conduct was the clear cause, and the clear foreseeable cause, of John’s death.’
The suit states that Barnett was suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety as a direct result of the treatment he received from his former employer.
It states that Barnett’s managers isolated him and threatened to ‘push you until you break.’
Barnett’s devastated family are seeking compensation, back pay and lost future pay and benefits.
They’re also seeking an unspecified sum for emotional distress and legal fees.
Boeing did not comment on the lawsuit specifically, but has previously maintained that it never retaliated against him.
The airline states that the issues Barnett raised were fixed, and that employees are encouraged to raise their concerns.
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