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   https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/boeings-shocking-personnel-scandals-   
   drugs-affairs-suicide/   
      
   Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his car with a gunshot   
   wound to his head on the same day he was due to testify against the   
   aircraft manufacturer.   
      
   The mysterious incident happened as the company’s stock has nosedived,   
   fueled by a series of incidents including a door plug which flew off a 737   
   MAX 9 operated by Alaska Airlines at 16,000 feet on Jan. 5 and a wheel   
   falling off a 777 jet a few weeks later.   
      
   This led the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) to investigate and   
   discover “unacceptable” quality control issues.   
      
   While Barnett’s death has raised many eyebrows, it is far from the first   
   incident involving the company’s workers.   
      
   Here we take a look back at some of Boeing’s biggest scandals.   
      
   2008: Disgruntled worker admits cutting chinook wires over ‘work stress’   
   A disgruntled worker at a Boeing plant told a court that he cut about 70   
   electrical wires on a $24 million Chinook military helicopter because he   
   was upset about a job transfer.   
      
   Matthew Montgomery, 33, pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of destroying   
   property under contract to the government.   
      
   According to federal prosecutors, Montgomery was working his last shift on   
   the Chinook assembly line May 10, 2008 when he severed about 70 electrical   
   wires running together from the cockpit to the main body of an H-47   
   Chinook.   
      
   He was later sentenced to five months in prison and five months in home   
   confinement after telling the judge the tension and tedium of his   
   assembly-line job had gotten to him.   
      
   “I know now that a factory environment is not the place for me,”   
   Montgomery said in court.   
      
   2011: Feds arrest 23 in Boeing plant drug raid   
   Almost two dozen past and then-current employees were arrested in a drug   
   bust at a Boeing plant which makes military aircraft in Pennsylvania, with   
   the charges including selling Oxycontin and fentanyl, officials said.   
      
   In a major sting, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents   
   uncovered the illegal prescription drug distribution ring at the Ridley   
   Park-based factory, leading to indictments against 23 individuals, a joint   
   statement from the agencies said.   
      
   “The defendants in this case are accused of diverting controlled   
   substances and selling them to alleged abusers without any medical   
   supervision,” said DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge, Vito Guarino, in   
   2011.   
      
   The drugs being sold on site at the facility – which builds aircraft   
   including the H-47 Chinook helicopter and the V-22 Ospre – included   
   fentanyl and oxycodone, also known as Oxycontin.   
      
   Boeing had brought its suspicions of drug activity to federal law   
   enforcement and the Justice Department said it had cooperated fully with   
   the long-term investigation.   
      
   FBI agents used Boeing employees to cooperate in the probe, and those   
   charged were accused of either selling drugs to FBI cooperators or buying   
   placebo drugs from them, officials said.   
      
   Boeing commended the U.S. agencies for their “rigorous and thorough   
   investigation.   
      
   All 23, including a union chief, had all pleaded guilty by August 2012,   
   according to a report in the Philadelphia Enquirer.   
      
   2014: Boeing workers claim coke and meth used while on the job   
   In a damning 2014 video clip, several Boeing employees claimed colleagues   
   were on hard drugs including cocaine and meth while they worked, and   
   raised concerns about the safety of the 787 Dreamliner aircrafts.   
      
   Current and retired Boeing employees discussed their worries about quality   
   control with news service Al Jazeera’s investigative TV segment “Broken   
   Dreams: The Boeing 787”.   
      
   On a video secretly taken at the plant by a worker and leaked to the   
   network, one Boeing employee said he has seen “people talking about doing   
   drugs, looking for drugs”, specifically marijuana, cocaine and   
   prescription painkillers.   
      
   In the footage, he records one man saying: “It’s all coke and painkillers”   
   at the plant, adding, “you can get weed here, you can get some really good   
   weed here”.   
      
   Another, who spoke on condition of anonymity, complained that Boeing   
   “don’t drug test nobody”, adding that “there’s people that go out there on   
   lunch and smoke one up”.   
      
   In a statement at the time, Boeing said: “Drug testing of employees is   
   done in accordance with Boeing … Boeing thoroughly investigates any   
   employee reports of policy deviation, and appropriate corrective action is   
   taken if needed.”   
      
   Using the hidden camera, the worker filmed 15 colleagues inside the Boeing   
   South Carolina plant assembling the 787 Dreamliner and asked if they would   
   fly on the plane. Ten said they would not, according to Aljazeera.   
      
   “I wouldn’t fly on one of these planes,” one worker tells him, “because I   
   see the quality of the f—g s–t going down around here”.   
      
   In a statement, Boeing said: “787 airplanes … meet the highest safety and   
   quality standards that are verified through robust test, verification and   
   inspection processes.”   
      
   2022: Boeing blamed for murder-suicide of colleagues in love triangle   
   Boeing’s failure to act after learning two of its employees were involved   
   in love triangle with their supervisor resulted in one of the employees   
   murdering his co-worker, according to a lawsuit filed in 2022.   
      
   The estate of former Boeing employee Isaiah Washington, 28, filed the   
   Boeing negligence lawsuit after he was fatally shot on the street by co-   
   worker Ralph O’Connor, 44, who then killed himself.   
      
   In January this year, the company argued the employees were not on the   
   clock when the murder occurred, in a bid to have the case tossed.   
      
   According to the King County Medical Examiner, Washington was shot several   
   times, and O’Connor then shot himself.   
      
   The lawsuit alleges both men had been in sexual relationships with Boeing   
   supervisor Rachel Pettit, leading to threats from O’Connor against   
   Washington.   
      
   Boeing was made aware of the threats and O’Connor’s history of threatening   
   behavior, according to the lawsuit.   
      
   Lawyers for Boeing said O’Connor left the company after it learned of   
   messages he had sent, including one where he told coworkers he wanted to   
   “pull the trigger”.   
      
   In their motion asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed, the company said:   
   “the complaint contains no allegations suggesting that Boeing knew or   
   should have known that O’Connor might kill or harm someone other than   
   himself.”   
      
   The civil case has yet to be resolved.   
      
   2024: FAA finds ‘multiple instances’ of quality control issues in audit   
   The FAA’s six-week audit of Boeing’s 737 MAX manufacturing processes   
   faulted numerous company processes, including mechanics at one of its key   
   suppliers using a hotel key card and dish soap as makeshift tools to test   
      
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