
'I know it happens': Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers
created: June 19, 2024, 12:25 a.m. | updated: July 12, 2025, 11:18 a.m.
John Barnett, a former Boeing quality manager, at his home in Goose Creek, S.C., on April 6, 2019.
Swikar Patel/The New York Times/ReduxJohn Barnett was a Boeing employee for more than 30 years, including seven as a quality manager in Charleston, South Carolina, where the 787 is assembled.
One of the problems that Barnett cited, according to the Senate investigators’ report released Tuesday, was the question about how Boeing accounted for the parts that did not meet company specifications.
In a deposition in his lawsuit cited in the Senate report, Barnett said that managers at Boeing “directed him to falsify records that would resolve the disposition of lost nonconforming parts in the company’s Quality Management System where parts are tracked.
In March after his death Boeing issued a statement saying “Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
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