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Sounds a lot like the NYT got a hold of the anon Boeing employee commenter from last week, and verified their employment and story.

In case anyone missed the multiple duplicate HN postings from this person's comments-

https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...

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I want to point out how awesome that is: Instead of another Internet rumor - most of which are nonsense - someone actually went out and verified it - someone paid, because who else has time to do it - and now we have actual knowledge. The difference between professional media and 'social media'.

I did not see where the time New York times verified the whistleblowers employment and story. It was more a reference to the Seattle times article and some surrounding hoopla...

The NYT source:

according to a person familiar with the matter.

Not the Seattle Times (though it could be the same source).

Was that not the whistleblower?

I have no idea. Maybe it's someone at Boeing, or the FAA, or Alaska Air, or somewhere else.

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