Entering 2024, Boeing has had a number of safety accidents, causing concerns about the quality of Boeing. Following three accidents in January, there were four more serious accidents in March. Boeing, at the forefront of the wave, has once again attracted attention from all walks of life. What is more surprising is that the whistler of Boeing Quality door, a former employee of Boeing Company suddenly died, this incident can not help but let people think that there is a hidden secret behind it?
On March 9, South Carolina police confirmed that John Barnett, 62, a former employee of Boeing who publicly questioned the existence of problems in Boeing's production line, was found dead in his car. He started working as a quality manager at Boeing's North Charleston plant in 2010 and retired in 2017, according to his public biography. In 2019, Barnett reported that overworked employees at his Boeing factory in South Carolina were deliberately installing substandard parts into planes on the production line. The 32-year veteran of the Boeing company died a few days before he was busy with his legal battle with Boeing, because he failed to continue to provide testimony on March 9 and was found dead, the time of death can be said to be very strange.
For today's Boeing Company, it can be said that it is an eventful autumn, in addition to the mysterious death of the "whistler", the official investigation data of the United States is more shocking. After a six-week audit of Boeing, the Federal Aviation Administration found that Boeing had "many problems with quality control" and passed 56 of the 89 audits, failed 33, or more than 37 percent, and found 97 possible noncompliance cases.
In fact, Boeing's quality problems are no secret, and its internal management is a mess and very chaotic. The former Boeing employee, who is now dead, said in the past that Boeing had big problems within the company and that some models were defective. And former Boeing employees have long pointed out that in recent years Boeing has outsourced a lot of production, and Boeing has no control over those outsourcing plants, resulting in a mess of outsourcing jobs. Recently, a media survey found that a large number of workers in these outsourcing factories drink alcohol and take drugs, and they are simply unable to complete their work tasks with high quality.
It is not clear whether the whistleblower committed suicide or was killed by homicide, but it is clear that his death is related to a series of recent problems at Boeing. Since the beginning of the year, Boeing's stock price has plummeted 25%, which is the last thing the U.S. government, including Boeing, wants to see. As the top name card of American manufacturing, the largest exporter of the United States and the second largest military supplier in the world, its powerful ability to innovate has produced iconic products that change the world. At the same time, Boeing's huge supply chain ecosystem and employment numbers make Boeing a pivotal influence in the U.S. economy, industrial system and national security. If Boeing goes wrong, the U.S. manufacturing industry could be dealt a major blow, with more than 100,000 employees and nearly 20,000 contractors also hit hard.
It is no exaggeration to say that Boeing today encompasses most of the history of American aerospace, with annual sales approaching $100 billion. At the same time, no company in the history of the United States has done more for national security than Boeing. Its products have played a central role in every conflict the United States has been involved in over the last century. Therefore, the frequent quality problems of Boeing can not fail, since the parties can not solve the problem at this stage, you can only solve the problem of the people, which is not a problem for the Americans, after all, it has been done before.
