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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dominic Rushe in New York

Second Boeing whistleblower dies after short illness

Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing's 737 Max production facility sit in storage behind Spirit AeroSystems headquarters, in Wichita, Kansas, in 2019.
Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing's 737 Max production facility sit in storage behind Spirit AeroSystems headquarters, in Wichita, Kansas, in 2019. Photograph: Nick Oxford/Reuters

Joshua Dean, a Boeing whistleblower who warned of manufacturing defects in the planemaker’s 737 Max, has died after a short illness, the second Boeing whistleblower to die this year.

Dean, 45, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alleging “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line” at Spirit.

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