# AD 90-09-03: Brakes

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Boeing DC-10-10 and DC-10-15
- Effective: May 29, 1990
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Large airplane
- Amendment: 39-6582
- Docket: 89-NM-136-AD
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/5F0ACD524CFB615086256A0800645C55.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/90-09-03

## The airworthiness directive

90-09-03 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS: Amendment 39-6582. Docket No. 89-NM-136-AD.

Applicability: Model DC-10-10 and -15 series airplanes, certificated in any category.

Compliance: Required as indicated, unless previously accomplished.

To prevent the loss of the main landing gear brakes, accomplish the following:

A. Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendment, inspect Airplanes Braking Systems (formerly Loral, formerly Goodyear) brakes, part numbers 5000709-1, -3, -5, -7, and -8, for wear. Any brake worn more than 1.00 inch must be replaced, prior to further flight, with one within this limit.

B. Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendment, incorporate the 1.00 inch brake wear limit into the FAA-approved maintenance inspection program.

C. Within 120 days after the effective date of this amendment, inspect Airplanes Braking Systems (formerly Loral, formerly Goodyear) brakes, part numbers 5000709-1, -3, -5, -7, and -8, for wear. Anybrake worn more than 0.60 inch must be replaced, prior to further flight, with one within this limit.

D. Within 120 days after the effective date of this amendment, incorporate the 0.60 inch brake wear limit into the FAA-approved maintenance inspection program.

E. An alternate means of compliance or adjustment of the compliance time, which provides an acceptable level of safety, may be used when approved by the Manager, Los Angeles Aircraft Certification Office, FAA, Northwest Mountain Region.

NOTE: The request should be forwarded through an FAA Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI), who will either concur or comment, and then send it to the Manager, Los Angeles Aircraft Certification Office, FAA, Northwest Mountain Region.

F. Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with FAR 21.197 and 21.199 to operate airplanes to a base in order to comply with the requirements of this AD.

This amendment (39-6582, AD 90-09-03) becomes effective on May 29, 1990.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS A22WE](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A22WE): The Boeing Company; names 2 of 11 models: DC-10-10, DC-10-15

## Registered aircraft it may apply to (OpenAirDocs)

No registered aircraft matched the models it names.

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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