MYSTERY ENGULFS AIRPLANE SAFETY SQUEALER'S DEATH
National Enquirer|April 08, 2024
John Barnett feared he'd be murdered for exposing Boeing flaws
MYSTERY ENGULFS AIRPLANE SAFETY SQUEALER'S DEATH

TRAGIC Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found with his brains blown out in a hotel parking lot while preparing to deliver damning new details of dangerous safety shortcuts made by the beleaguered aircraft manufacturing giant!

Barnett, 62, had already revealed damaging information about how the company put passengers in peril by cutting corners and a close family Family frien Barnett's d to "look li friend says the ill-fated informant grimly predicted his new testimony would lead to his death!

The friend, who requested to be identified as "Jennifer," says Barnett served as a pallbearer at her father's February funeral and told her, "I ain't scared, but if anything happens to me, it's not suicide."

The doomed man was in the midst of a deposition with Boeing's lawyers in a case where he claimed he was the victim of company retaliation for revealing its safety shortcomings.

Jennifer believes somebody "didn't like" what he had to say and wanted to "shut him up."

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