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 morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.

Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.

He died after two weeks in critical condition, his aunt Carol Parsons said.

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    All these accidental coincidence deaths starting to remind me of a certain Eurasia country

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    So uhh this is awkward. But this is their second whistleblower to die? At what point do we uhhh investigate this?

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    Someone with a lot of money probably did something extremely heinous… that, or a PR team just landed the absolute worst coincidence.

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      I haven’t heard anyone irl talking about Boeing recently, and barely even saw anything online a week after the initial death. While it pisses me off to no end, this incident will blow over just as easily for Boeing.

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          If you’re in the US, you have very few non-Boeing options. Especially if you’re trying to pick affordable flights.

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            Yeah, if anything, I expect people to book whatever flights they were already going to book, and just crack jokes like “I hope I make it!”

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    A local politician in my area died recently of an unknown infection. No one will say anything more about it. I realize the Boeing whistleblower was probably a hit. But are we not concerned in general about deadly infections escaping and starting the next pandemic, as if using them for hit jobs weren’t bad enough?

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    with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.

    Does this infection have a name?

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      Pnuenonia followed by mrsa.

      This one doesn’t seem as suspicious as “suicide” in between depositions.

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        In this case the suspicious part is the sudden issue that landed him in the hospital in the first place. The pneumonia and MRSA almost surely came after being admitted.

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          That’s not what killed him though. It would be bizarre for Boeing to use their vast resources to hire some special assassin to… make a guy winded enough to go to the hospital? Feels like hearing zebras over horses to me.

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              Right, but it would be a bizarre choice of weapon. The odds that some agency gave this man covid so he would go to the hospital to get a form of pneumonia that would then kill him is Qanon level thinking.

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                Ok how would you have done it? Keep in mind it has to look like not murder and you already did suicide. I can’t think of a better way. Give him the pathogen that is found everywhere now. Oh that didn’t kill him? Fine grab a wipe out of the biohazard bin and wipe down a table with it in his room.

                As I said a determined 12 year old could pull it off. I literally know two people self-isolating from the virus now.

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                  So, the same company that allegedly had a man shoot himself a few weeks back is now so worried about making it look like an accident, that they’re willing to use a method that has about the same success rate as pushing him off a bicycle? Not buying it. Frankly, it’s so absurd on its face that the burden of proof is overwhelming.

                  Sometimes people die. Sometimes they die with unfortunate timing. Again, the suicide one is sus, investigate that all day. Leave this person’s family and memory alone, they deserve peace.

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    Interesting aside, as I understand it, Spirit Aerosystem is the company that was ultimately contracted to repair the emergency exit door plug issue and failed to properly re-install the securing bolts when they were done.

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    Wait wait was this the guy who was transferred to a different project as ‘punishment’ by Boeing or someone else?

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      This is a new one who died from a sudden and severe MSRA infection…

      Both were being represented by the same law firm in the same case against Boeing and Spirit (Boeings contractor for parts and assembly).

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        Ahh okay cool different guy 👍👍

        Also probably not bumped off by the big B but then again who knows at this point lol

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    Strange unexplained fatal illness, to otherwise healthy guy, outta nowhere right after the deposition.

    Goddamn, Boeing. Thats some CIA shit

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    When it comes to dealing with those opposing any facets of the MIC, the US is already a fascist state. Your freedoms do not extend to any part of the MIC, they exist above you and your needs