When two different Boeing whistleblowers died earlier this year, it was difficult to avoid some dark speculations. After all, the company has been accused of being cavalier about passengers’ lives; would it consider the lives of its most steadfast critics any more valuable? As reporter Sean Flynn dug into the death of Mitch Barnett, who sounded the alarm on a series of potentially fatal flaws in the assembly process of the 787 Dreamliner, the question of foul play receded — but that didn’t mean that Boeing was off the hook. In this moving story, we see Barnett the deeply devoted family man, someone with a strong sense of right and wrong and when to speak up. No wonder he ran into trouble with his employer. |
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