SPR - Another Boeing Whistleblower Dies This Time Due To Sudden Infection | Benzinga
Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) shares are trading higher on Thursday, inline with a broader market upswing in response to a Wednesday decision by the Fed to keep interest rates steady for the upcoming period.
The company appeared unaffected by the latest chapter in its saga of bad publicity: the sudden death of yet another whistleblower, who had sounded the alarm on irregularities in the manufacturing of Boeing's 737 Max airplane line.
Boeing has been at the center of a major controversy, after a Boeing 737 Max 9 flown by Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK) lost an emergency door in the middle of a flight in January.
Whistleblower Joshua Dean died on Tuesday morning from an unexpected infection, The Seattle Times reported. He worked as quality auditor for Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPR), one of Boeing’s main partners in the manufacturing of 737 aircraft.
Dean is the second Boeing whistleblower to die unexpectedly after John Barnett, a former Boeing employee who raised safety concerns after being at the company for over 32 years, was found dead in March in a hotel room