The family of John Barnett, the whistleblower who allegedly committed suicide after he raised safety concerns about the airline’s factories, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company.
Barnett reportedly shot himself in the temple in his truck in the parking lot of a South Carolina hotel last year after days of a grueling testimony for a lawsuit about Boeing’s safety standards.
His family claimed in the wrongful death lawsuit that Boeing subjected Barnett to a “campaign of harassment, abuse, and intimidation intended to discourage, discredit, and humiliate him until he would either give up or be discredited.”
“Boeing has threatened to break John, and break him it did,” the court papers stated.
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Barnett had worked at the company for more than three decades
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