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Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead in US

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0:00 he hit my car with his car no your car was too close what wait what he's oh say got a new truck he's like can I drive it I was like sure no I I moved your car for you and then he came back in he goes I crashed your car into my [Music] car John Barnett well that was closer who's that Barnett that's a good question John is that basketball player no basetball no I know Josh Barnett one of the MMA ogs I know Josh harn it I know that too I know Nathan Barnett okay we're farther away than what I thought we were going to see oh that guy the freaking crazy guy he's great what's happening back to John Barnett I know Josh Harnet oh look

0:51 at that B I got a lot of F that is a belly hey rub it Ryan touch it a little bit you know who this guy is for luck touch it you don't remember his name but you know who this guy is John Barnett John Barnett absolutely two words but really one word whistleblower I don't know compound word I think you do know you ever heard of boing it's an airline oh he did in suicide he promised he didn't exactly he promised he didn't tell us about it Joe tell us Joe this guy from Boeing joing Boeing is a airplane company my bad it's an airplane company Bo one of the biggest ones right

1:43 sometimes you fly them you don't know it might be American Airlines Delta Airlines what they do is it's from Boeing but then they put their own color on it that's why you don't know which airplane you're going to get on and this guy he said you know what crazy I'm worried about all these s█████ parts that they aren't fixing on the planes what's happening he went whistleblow and then he was about to go to court and maybe he was testifying and in the middle of it he decided to kill himself out of nowhere he was supposed to testify again the next day and he just had a i think I just kill myself I think he's probably gambling on salon

2:34 s████████ and he's like ████ I lost everything yeah he K right when the market went down a little bit yeah that's it you said oh I shouldn't have had the ABA just in case you're not as intelligent as these two guys a former Boeing Employee known for raising concerns about the firm's production standards has been found dead in the US he worked for Boeing for more than 30 years before retiring in 2017 in the days before his death so he reti retired already he retired mhm it's depressing retiring yes it is very sad in the days before his death he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett's passing there you go they're good then glad they said that I just feel way better about it now ladies and gentlemen the jury Boeing

3:25 said they were saddened to hear of the death wow I Rush my case I really thought they were behind it too they they wouldn't have killed them if they said they're sad cuz Killers aren't sad about their victims yeah they're usually estatic elated it makes sense imagine they go in to raid like the Boeing guy the main dude and they catch him and he's like oh it wasn't him it's not dude here he some tissues this guy's sad it wasn't him no way so apparently the 62-year-old had died from quote self-inflicted wounds on March 9th uh from 2010 he was employed as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant the facility builds the 787 Dreamliner which is a state-of-the-art airliner who's mainly on Long Haul rades um in 2019 Mr Barnett said that Under Pressure

4:17 workers had been deliberately fitting substandard parts to aircrafts on the production line here's the crazy part a lot of um just planes recently have been shown like this ████ door blew off mid flight or like there's that there's that most recent viral clip of an airplane that's like trying to land and stff there's just ████ flames and smoke coming from it so it's like these are all technically Boeing planes so it kind of fits the appropriate Narrative of like where this guy was going but I don't even know who else make airplanes are majority of planes Boe already yeah it seems like it that's why I'm like who where else do they buy it from then yeah who who else is Airbus Boeing well locky Martin makes planes too oh yeah yeah yeah yeah boing like every plane I've ever been on I think has been a Boeing Boeing well the commercial ones are mostly Boeing right cuz locky does like

5:07 a lot of I think they do like The Kill ones yeah killer ones I think boow does kill ones too they're a defense contractor oh really they also kill their own employees I heard oh ████ oh ████ where'd you hear that no but they're sad so they they're sad retiring is hard he also said that he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems which could mean one in four breathing Mass would not work in an emergency still good odds though one in four huh come on overp populated too oh one in four yeah one and four oh yeah that's bad so it helps out oh it helps it helps out I mean yeah she trying to have your opinion he said soon after starting work in South Carolina he had become concerned that the push to get new aircraft built meant the assembly process was rushed and safety was

5:59 compromised something the company denied he later said that the uh workers had failed to follow procedures intended to track components through the factory allowing defective components to go missing he said in some cases substandard Parts had been removed from scrap BS and fitted to planes that were being built to prevent delays on the production line so you know in in order to meet like ████ quotas to get ████ done they're literally just taking like and you know who knows what the definition of substandard is like I don't know if there's a some sort of grading scale and maybe this got A8 out of 10 but that's up standard but maybe this is a 2 out of 10 but again all I'm saying is in lie of the recent viral clips and different things that are happening where doors are the high frequency of those videos he was also saying that ████ was actually removed from scrap bins and put on plants yeah he did say that aftermarket parts

6:51 salvage title they don't even let you drive cars like that that's true for me I'm like when they say supp part right is that that like instead of using the real screws and tightening it someone goes with the masking tape and just goes like that I know right like I want to are they using rivets or screws but if you go to a scrap bin isn't that recycling which is kind of eco-friendly oh oh that's kind of cool oh that I like I like that train of thought like to be fair Li rolls are very happy yeah to be fair I mean we've all been on airplanes probably numerous times have we ever personally encountered certain issues that were like true truly lifethreatening or anything I I'm just asking seriously honestly I never have I I think that they lie to me sometimes like we'll be docked on and they're like oh the air conditioning is broken and

7:41 I'm like you know it was probably something way worse but they just lie oh you know what on Alle legit yes there has been AC broken once yep they'll be like air conditions BR saying life threaten yeah what the one time uh coming back from Hawaii uh coming Landing in Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines as we're Landing there was a big giant bang that was like really loud that came from like one of the engines and then the cabin started filling up with smoke shut the ████ up that's ████ crazy and then the the hanol Lulu uh ████ fire department had to come meet us on the tarmac or whatever wow did they start spraying the plane while you guys still in the air no so it was like it was when we landed it was like yeah we were landed already so we we see a bunch of smoke in the cabin and then we didn't think anything of it we were like oh cuz you know you're trying to be optimistic like so it's like 4 hours of safe flight and then like the last

8:32 something happen what if it's like who fanny pack turned on this smoke button back here and I'm like oh thank god dude thank God it was the last like the guy it was like Columbo was like this only could have been done by a ████ fanny pack a real heavy ████ fan P there's nothing else that could possibly have this kind of somebody have one of those things huh how did this happen anybody got a track record of fanny pack smoke fire starting ████ I only see this one other time it was a yeah it was an oven in pasido in a ████ hole in Pasad I love like airplanes cars trains I just hate mistakes I just hate accidents yeah why do they have to happen I agree I agree were you in oops baby H were you an accident maybe I hate myself no they're

9:23 not him and his brother's ages are so close he hit my car with his car no your car was too close wait what he took did he took my car and crashed it into his car Y what the hell is that did this is when I got my white truck he's oh say you got a new truck he's like can I drive it I was like sure no I I moved your car for you and then he came back in he goes I crashed your car into my car I no I was moving the cars out of the driveway and then I scraped his car up against my bumper and the ████ up thing is his ████ side got all ████ up and my my car has like one scratch on the bumper and I was like how the ████ did this happen which I got to still pay

10:13 you for I like how Bart's like yeah he crashed his car in my car like no and he's like yeah one driver two damages it's pretty good man what did you say to him when did this happen I think it was like years it was like a year the white truck is like forever yeah it's like like a few years ago and you haven't paid him for it I forgot I told him to go get it done and I'll just pay the bill oh but you haven't got it fixed yet I've been busy I don't know it's never going to get fixed dude it probably is never going to get fix forgot about it Bart sit they like we should make it a big deal and I'll call my insurance and you call your insurance we should make it are then we making a lawsuit oh yeah let's Sue each other Joy Bart I'm I'm showing up every day to

11:03 court Jo Bart whose side are you taking side I can't wait for the pr I'm going to be I'm going to be neutral I'm going to listen I'm going to listen both ears open I I wanted to be a nice friend that day cuz the trash was out and I said Bart I'll move your truck out of the way for you so I can move my truck to the side and then I scrape the ████ out of his door on my bumper I'm probably on bar side both ear open there's only one driver what was miscalculated to the thing pretty easy holy ████ how do never hear about started off no both of our cars were like face this way and then when I brought his truck the passenger door scraped against my grill he's talking as if he's adding logic to the situation no he's talking as if a robot did this but like what where did you

11:54 misjudge the distance like because he lives in a cerac with no curve so did the car do it or did you do it Joe he lives in a culde-sac with no curb so that it's not a straight line as a member of the jury I'm looking for remorse yeah yeah nah it just happened I remember he came inside and I was like what happened he goes the way your car's shaped man dude I why it shaped that way the way your car shaped that is so ████ up dude and the way my car was shaped yeah it's the two opposing shapes dude that's one of those ████ well her skirt shouldn't have been so short all right now I'm back in the middle it's kind of B Bart's fault you live in a cuac without a he has no curb on a cuac kind of ████ is that dude

12:45 what the ████ is wrong with you I ████ up what's up with you and to me I was shocked how ████ up his door was and when you look at my truck nothing there's like a little scratch like that and I was like damn Bro ████ I'm sorry but you got really ████ he's like Tas are sick Comas are pretty sick hell [Music] yeah

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