I was minding my own business in r/politics and I came upon this.
Emphasis theirs.
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Those of us in aerospace know how nonsensical and misinformed that conspiracy is, seeing as his defamation testimony posed exactly 0% threat to Boeing at any level. Because, after all - and contrary to what reading only headlines would have you believe - Mr. Barnett killed himself during his appeal for his rejected defamation lawsuit against Boeing.
Which is notably NOT his whistleblowing testimony which had concluded in 2019. The case had already been litigated, FAA implemented new regulations and the South Carolina 787 factory had to comply with those mandates - FIVE YEARS AGO. Barnett had not worked for seven years and did not even suggest he had “new information” to present.
The only threat Barnett posed to Boeing is in the imagination of Redditors who haven’t bothered to look into it past clickbait headlines.
Why are we listening to some random reddit comment from a merely alleged aerospace guy?
What jumps out at me though is that the “defamation lawsuit” was actually a particular federal law called AIR21 that is meant to protect aviation whistleblowers, and the rejection according to Barnetts lawyer was because the original suit was filed with the OSHA, which doesnt have subpoena power, and this new appeal/amended complaint was with the Department of Labor, which does seem to have subpoena powers from what I can tell.
Omitting that stuff seems like its meant to make Barnett come off like a pathetic kook, and I mean identifying yourself as someone in the aerospace industry when disparaging an aerospace whistleblower is pretty sus to my eyes.