Following the suspected suicide of John Barnett in March this year, Joshua Dean, another whistleblower of Boeing's production safety and product quality problems, died of a sudden illness on April 30, at the age of 45.
继约翰·巴尼特今年3月疑似自杀后，美国波音公司生产安全和产品质量问题又一名举报人乔舒亚·迪安4月30日突发疾病去世，终年45岁。
Dean, who lives in Wichita, Kansas, has been in good health and leads a healthy lifestyle, the Seattle Times reported on May 1. Family members said that two weeks ago, Dean suddenly went to the hospital with breathing difficulties and was hospitalized, and then his condition continued to deteriorate, and he was diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
据《西雅图时报》5月1日报道，迪安住在堪萨斯州威奇托市，身体一向很好，生活方式健康。家属说，两周前，迪恩突然因呼吸困难就医并住院，随后病情不断恶化，被确诊感染耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌（MRSA），医生无力回天。
Mr. Dean, a former quality inspector at Boeing's airframe supplier, was one of the first whistleblowers to accuse Mr. Dean of ignoring flaws in the 737 MAX's manufacturing process.
迪安曾在波音公司机身供应商势必锐航空系统公司担任质量检测员，是最早一批指控势必锐高层忽视737 MAX机型制造过程存在缺陷的举报人之一。
In response to the former employee's death, Joe Buccino, a company spokesman, said: "Our thoughts are with Dean's family. His sudden departure has shocked all of us."
对于这名前员工去世，势必锐公司发言人乔·布奇诺称：“我们与迪安的家人同在。他的突然离去令我们每一个人震惊。”
The Seattle Times reported that Dean, a mechanical engineer, began working at the company in 2019, was laid off the following year amid layoffs triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and returned to the company in May 2021 as a quality inspector.
《西雅图时报》报道，迪安是机械工程师，2019年开始在势必锐工作，次年在新冠疫情引发的裁员中下岗，2021年5月重返势必锐，出任质检员。
According to Dean, in October 2022, he discovered a serious manufacturing defect in the 737 MAX, but when he raised the issue with management, he received no response and no reply.
按照迪安的说法，2022年10月，他发现737 MAX机型一个严重制造缺陷，但当他向管理层提出这一问题时，却没有得到任何回应和答复。
Focusing on that defect, Mr. Dean said, he missed another manufacturing defect in the same audit, involving fittings used to attach the vertical tail to the fuselage. When the defect was discovered in April 2023 and led to the suspension of deliveries at Boeing's Renton plant, he was fired. In August of the same year, the company admitted that some 737 MAX aircraft had hundreds of misplaced and repeated holes in the rear bulkhead. That led to another suspension of deliveries at the Renton plant.
迪安说，由于专注于上述缺陷，他在同一次审计中遗漏了另一个制造缺陷，涉及垂直尾翼与机身连接所用配件。当这个缺陷在2023年4月被发现并导致波音伦顿工厂暂停交货时，他被解雇了。同年8月，势必锐承认一些737 MAX飞机尾端耐压舱壁存在合计数以百计错位且重复的钻孔。这导致伦顿工厂再次暂停交货。
Dean later filed complaints with the Department of Labor and the Federal Aviation Administration, claiming that he had been made a "scapegoat" for "underreporting quality issues" and that he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns related to aviation safety.
迪安后来向美国劳工部和美国联邦航空局投诉，称势必锐“瞒报质量问题”，把他当“替罪羊”，解雇他是为了报复他提出与航空安全相关的担忧。
In recent months, several types of Boeing aircraft have been involved in safety accidents, exposing Boeing's safety culture, quality control and other problems. The FAA launches production audits of Boeing and Correa.
近几个月，波音多个型号飞机发生安全事故，暴露波音公司在安全文化、质量控制等方面问题。美国联邦航空局对波音和势必锐发起生产审计。
On March 9, Mr. Barnett, who worked at Boeing for 32 years and exposed the company's quality-control problems, was found dead of a suspected suicide at the age of 62. The Charleston County coroner's office in South Carolina said Barnett appeared to have died of "a self-inflicted gunshot wound." That claim has been questioned. Nearly two months after the incident, the police have yet to conclude their investigation.
今年3月9日，曾在波音工作32年并曝光公司质量控制问题的巴尼特被发现疑似死于自杀，终年62岁。南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿县验尸官办公室说，巴尼特似乎死于“一处自残性枪伤”。这一说法引发质疑。事发将近两月，警方尚未结束调查。
Barnett became a quality control manager at the North Charleston, South Carolina, plant where Boeing's 787 jet is built in 2010. He retired in 2017 for health reasons and broke the news of Boeing's production safety problems in 2019. He was found dead in his car in the hotel parking lot when he failed to appear for questioning on March 9 in his defamation lawsuit against Boeing. According to documents released by his lawyer, Barnett said he had been "harassed, vilified and humiliated" for raising concerns about Boeing's quality control practices.
巴尼特2010年在生产波音787型客机的南卡罗来纳州北查尔斯顿工厂出任质控经理，2017年因健康原因退休，2019年爆料波音生产安全问题。他本应于3月9日就自己起诉波音公司诽谤案接受质询，结果却未出庭，后被发现死在其入住酒店停车场的车里。根据代理律师公布的文件，巴尼特生前表示，他因为对波音质量控制环节表示担忧而受到“骚扰、诋毁和羞辱”。
The Seattle Times reported that Barnett was represented by a South Carolina law firm, which also represented Dean. Brian Knowles, one of the lawyers representing the deaths, said he did not want to speculate on the timing or cause of the two deaths.
《西雅图时报》报道，为巴尼特提供法律服务的是南卡州一家律师事务所，后者同样为迪安提供法律代理。代理律师之一布赖恩·诺尔斯说，他不想就两起死亡事件的发生时机和原因作猜测。
继约翰·巴尼特今年3月疑似自杀后，美国波音公司生产安全和产品质量问题又一名举报人乔舒亚·迪安4月30日突发疾病去世，终年45岁。
Dean, who lives in Wichita, Kansas, has been in good health and leads a healthy lifestyle, the Seattle Times reported on May 1. Family members said that two weeks ago, Dean suddenly went to the hospital with breathing difficulties and was hospitalized, and then his condition continued to deteriorate, and he was diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
据《西雅图时报》5月1日报道，迪安住在堪萨斯州威奇托市，身体一向很好，生活方式健康。家属说，两周前，迪恩突然因呼吸困难就医并住院，随后病情不断恶化，被确诊感染耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌（MRSA），医生无力回天。
Mr. Dean, a former quality inspector at Boeing's airframe supplier, was one of the first whistleblowers to accuse Mr. Dean of ignoring flaws in the 737 MAX's manufacturing process.
迪安曾在波音公司机身供应商势必锐航空系统公司担任质量检测员，是最早一批指控势必锐高层忽视737 MAX机型制造过程存在缺陷的举报人之一。
In response to the former employee's death, Joe Buccino, a company spokesman, said: "Our thoughts are with Dean's family. His sudden departure has shocked all of us."
对于这名前员工去世，势必锐公司发言人乔·布奇诺称：“我们与迪安的家人同在。他的突然离去令我们每一个人震惊。”
The Seattle Times reported that Dean, a mechanical engineer, began working at the company in 2019, was laid off the following year amid layoffs triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and returned to the company in May 2021 as a quality inspector.
《西雅图时报》报道，迪安是机械工程师，2019年开始在势必锐工作，次年在新冠疫情引发的裁员中下岗，2021年5月重返势必锐，出任质检员。
According to Dean, in October 2022, he discovered a serious manufacturing defect in the 737 MAX, but when he raised the issue with management, he received no response and no reply.
按照迪安的说法，2022年10月，他发现737 MAX机型一个严重制造缺陷，但当他向管理层提出这一问题时，却没有得到任何回应和答复。
Focusing on that defect, Mr. Dean said, he missed another manufacturing defect in the same audit, involving fittings used to attach the vertical tail to the fuselage. When the defect was discovered in April 2023 and led to the suspension of deliveries at Boeing's Renton plant, he was fired. In August of the same year, the company admitted that some 737 MAX aircraft had hundreds of misplaced and repeated holes in the rear bulkhead. That led to another suspension of deliveries at the Renton plant.
迪安说，由于专注于上述缺陷，他在同一次审计中遗漏了另一个制造缺陷，涉及垂直尾翼与机身连接所用配件。当这个缺陷在2023年4月被发现并导致波音伦顿工厂暂停交货时，他被解雇了。同年8月，势必锐承认一些737 MAX飞机尾端耐压舱壁存在合计数以百计错位且重复的钻孔。这导致伦顿工厂再次暂停交货。
Dean later filed complaints with the Department of Labor and the Federal Aviation Administration, claiming that he had been made a "scapegoat" for "underreporting quality issues" and that he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns related to aviation safety.
迪安后来向美国劳工部和美国联邦航空局投诉，称势必锐“瞒报质量问题”，把他当“替罪羊”，解雇他是为了报复他提出与航空安全相关的担忧。
In recent months, several types of Boeing aircraft have been involved in safety accidents, exposing Boeing's safety culture, quality control and other problems. The FAA launches production audits of Boeing and Correa.
近几个月，波音多个型号飞机发生安全事故，暴露波音公司在安全文化、质量控制等方面问题。美国联邦航空局对波音和势必锐发起生产审计。
On March 9, Mr. Barnett, who worked at Boeing for 32 years and exposed the company's quality-control problems, was found dead of a suspected suicide at the age of 62. The Charleston County coroner's office in South Carolina said Barnett appeared to have died of "a self-inflicted gunshot wound." That claim has been questioned. Nearly two months after the incident, the police have yet to conclude their investigation.
今年3月9日，曾在波音工作32年并曝光公司质量控制问题的巴尼特被发现疑似死于自杀，终年62岁。南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿县验尸官办公室说，巴尼特似乎死于“一处自残性枪伤”。这一说法引发质疑。事发将近两月，警方尚未结束调查。
Barnett became a quality control manager at the North Charleston, South Carolina, plant where Boeing's 787 jet is built in 2010. He retired in 2017 for health reasons and broke the news of Boeing's production safety problems in 2019. He was found dead in his car in the hotel parking lot when he failed to appear for questioning on March 9 in his defamation lawsuit against Boeing. According to documents released by his lawyer, Barnett said he had been "harassed, vilified and humiliated" for raising concerns about Boeing's quality control practices.
巴尼特2010年在生产波音787型客机的南卡罗来纳州北查尔斯顿工厂出任质控经理，2017年因健康原因退休，2019年爆料波音生产安全问题。他本应于3月9日就自己起诉波音公司诽谤案接受质询，结果却未出庭，后被发现死在其入住酒店停车场的车里。根据代理律师公布的文件，巴尼特生前表示，他因为对波音质量控制环节表示担忧而受到“骚扰、诋毁和羞辱”。
The Seattle Times reported that Barnett was represented by a South Carolina law firm, which also represented Dean. Brian Knowles, one of the lawyers representing the deaths, said he did not want to speculate on the timing or cause of the two deaths.
《西雅图时报》报道，为巴尼特提供法律服务的是南卡州一家律师事务所，后者同样为迪安提供法律代理。代理律师之一布赖恩·诺尔斯说，他不想就两起死亡事件的发生时机和原因作猜测。
