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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by pclmulqdq »

jjk166 wrote: post #9
torstenvl wrote: post #4

"Self-inflicted wound"? Obviously the story is still developing but I'm immediately skeptical. EDIT: Also weird that BBC is already memory-holing that it was a gunshot wound. archive.is has the original. https://archive.is/wj0LE

Self inflicted wound in the middle of several days of scheduled depositions. Just about as suspicious as could be.

Have you ever been deposed?

It's an incredibly stressful process, and he's already going through the hell of being a whistleblower.

I'm sure Boeing was ready to depose him more and more in order to try to get him to shift his story.

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Post by ironmagma »

imjonse wrote: post #176
aragonite wrote: post #121

I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Imagine editors try to anticipate all kinds of ways a candidate headline might mislead the reader, and rewrite the headline to discourage those inferences — succinctly if possible, verbosely if necessary. For this particular piece such a outlet might opt for som…

737 Max whistleblowers should take notice though.

Whistleblowers should be in no way influenced by current events. Information wants to be free and that will never change.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by dang »

falsandtru wrote: post #240
dang wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Once I unkilled it, it went back from [flagged][dead] to just [flagged], and it went back to being visible to everyone whether they are logged in or not, or have 'showdead' turned on or not. In other words, you resurrected the deleted text. I just hope this conversation will not be deleted/flagged again and become unreadable.

I don't want to argue definitions. If you prefer to call a comment 'deleted' which anyone with 'showdead' turned on in their profile can read, that's fine. On HN, we've always used the word 'dead' for that class of comments.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by hef19898 »

xvector wrote: post #239
hef19898 wrote: post #219

The amount of conspiracie flying around in this thread are shocking. Someone committed, as it seems, suicide after years, if not decades, of emotional work related stress. They came forward, publicly, with their concerns. So publicly, that everyone knows who they are, from co-workers over friends and family to the media. That alone adds another ton of stress and pressure. And on top of all of that, they went through…

The man was just about to testify. The timing is what makes this suspicious, not the suicide itself. Let's not be so naive as to imply that these companies and their vested interests would not murder someone to protect a multi-billion dollar business. Shit like this happens all the time.

All the time, huh? Not the usual lawyer intimidation, pressure and PI surveillenace, but actual murder?

Ok, can you link to cases then? In the US or Europe or some place like this, not Africa or some developing country where western companies run amok at times. And also some recent ones, in the last 20 years or so?

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Post by Brian_K_White »

aurareturn wrote: post #203
autoexec wrote: post #82

I'm not saying that Boeing had him assassinated, but I sure wouldn't put it past them. They've already shown themselves to be perfectly willing to sacrifice human lives for increased profits.

It doesn't even have to be Boeing. It's possible that a government agency could do it as well. For example, suppose Boeing is seen by the government as a national entity, it's possible for a government agency such as CIA to do the assignation if they think he puts the country in an unfavorable position. But I think it's more likely that a shareholder/high stakes person connected to Boeing might want to do it. There i…

Doesn't even have to be someone important or with a lot of money on the line, just anyone with a lot on the line for them, and that doesn't require anything but a feeling.

A janitor who thinks they will lose their job which might be no money but critical (or feel critical) to them because of retirement or health care, maybe for a relative etc, or any rando that some nobody middle manager lizard pressured or even merely manipulated by just talking.

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Post by coolspot »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #187

Has someone numbers about suicides in cars with guns? This looks fishy to me. But perhaps I've just watched too many mafia films.

Suicide in a car is a “popular” way of doing this because there is less cleaning afterwards. Crime scene cleaning of a room costs like $20k. Bodily fluids go everywhere.

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Post by throwaway81523 »

aragonite wrote: post #121

I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Imagine editors try to anticipate all kinds of ways a candidate headline might mislead the reader, and rewrite the headline to discourage those inferences — succinctly if possible, verbosely if necessary. For this particular piece such a outlet might opt for som…

Reddit, r/savedyouaclick

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Post by hulitu »

keernan wrote: post #10

He was scheduled to appear for day two of his deposition testimony the morning of his death. Had he died Sat night instead of Sat morning, the transcript of Saturday's testimony could have been read to the jury during trial. Obviously that can't happen now and whatever he was going to say in Saturday's testimony is lost forever.

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