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Did you work with Goodyear Aerospace commercial and military aircraft wheel-and-brake assemblies with asbestos friction pucks and rotors? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Goodyear Aerospace commercial and military aircraft wheel-and-brake assemblies with asbestos friction pucks and rotors, sold from the 1940s until the 1980s. Plaintiffs have allegedly identified Goodyear Aerospace aircraft brake linings as a chrysotile-containing friction product in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: chrysotile-reinforced phenolic friction material bonded to wheel-brake stator plates and disc-brake heat packs; exposure during aircraft brake overhaul, machining of friction pucks, and use of compressed air to blow brake dust from wheel wells and hangar floors. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Aircraft Mechanics, Airline Ground Crew, and Navy Aviation Structural Mechanics. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Goodyear Aerospace commercial and military aircraft wheel-and-brake assemblies with asbestos friction pucks and rotors and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim against the manufacturer. This is educational information from an independent publisher — not a law firm — and is not legal advice.
Product Description
Goodyear Aerospace Corporation (Akron, OH — the aerospace division of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, later divested to Loral in 1987) allegedly manufactured wheel-and-brake assemblies for commercial airliners, business jets, and U.S. military aircraft from the 1940s through the 1980s. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Goodyear Aerospace multi-disc brake heat packs used chrysotile-reinforced phenolic friction pucks bonded to steel stator plates, and that overhaul of these brake assemblies released respirable asbestos fibers during disassembly, machining, and cleaning.
Goodyear Aerospace brakes were allegedly installed on Boeing 707/727/737 airliners, Douglas DC-8/DC-9, Lockheed C-130 and C-141, and numerous Navy and Air Force fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms.
Workers Exposed
- Airline and general-aviation aircraft mechanics performing brake overhaul at MRO shops
- Navy Aviation Structural Mechanics (AM) and Air Force crew chiefs replacing brake heat packs on the flight line
- Ground-support personnel who used compressed air to blow brake dust from wheel wells and hangar floors
- Brake overhaul machinists who turned or ground worn friction pucks
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