Boeing held responsible for whistleblower’s fatality in recent lawsuit
The family of John “Mitch” Barnett, a Boeing whistleblower whose death last year brought fresh attention to the company’s persistent struggles with quality, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, blaming the aerospace company for Barnett’s suicide. Barnett was found March 9, 2024, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 62….
