Boeing shed $4billion in value overnight after it emerged that a whistleblower who was suing the aviation giant had died of an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound in South Carolina.Shares dropped by more than 4 percent Tuesday morning as the airline maker's stock slumped to a five-month low on the news late Monday that John Barnett was found dead in a hotel parking lot in Charleston on Saturday.Barnett, 62, had been in the middle of a deposition in a whistleblower lawsuit related to production of the 787 Dreamliner, according to his lawyer. The suit alleged under-pressure workers were deliberately fitting 'sub-standard' parts to Boeing 787s, and that brass were sweeping defects under the rug to save money.
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