Narrative:

I was the primary marshaller bringing a flight into the gate. The gate is a dog-leg gate and requires a precision turn directed by the primary marshaller in order to hand of directions to the final marshaller. I was still issuing my SOP hand signals marshalling the A320 forward when the captain took it upon himself to turn the aircraft well before the dog-leg. He was only half way down the line and coming in way too fast and not slowing down. There was no time to signal to slow down before he turned for it wasn't until he completely turned and showed his broadside before I realized how fast he was going. While he turned; I could see the captain shaking his head and muttering something as if he was upset. It was at this point I realized that the #1 engine was fast approaching my position and threatening to overtake me. I had to back up rapidly to avoid the danger that it posed. At this time; I looked at my final marshaller and he hadn't yet realized what was going on; he wasn't even providing any hand signals because he was looking at me waiting for me to turn the plane (which I didn't); yet the plane was still coming. At the last moments; the final marshaller managed to signal for the plane to stop in time to hit his mark and not over shoot the stopping line. We were all baffled. We were hoping to speak with a flight deck crew member on their walk around; but nobody came down to perform a walk around. We are assuming that they just left after passengers deplaned.

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Title: Ramp Marshall reports an A320 Captain taxiing too fast and not following directions during taxi into a gate requiring two Marshalls and a dog leg turn for alignment.

Narrative: I was the primary marshaller bringing a flight into the gate. The gate is a dog-leg gate and requires a precision turn directed by the primary marshaller in order to hand of directions to the final marshaller. I was still issuing my SOP hand signals marshalling the A320 forward when the captain took it upon himself to turn the aircraft well before the dog-leg. He was only half way down the line and coming in way too fast and not slowing down. There was no time to signal to slow down before he turned for it wasn't until he completely turned and showed his broadside before I realized how fast he was going. While he turned; I could see the Captain shaking his head and muttering something as if he was upset. It was at this point I realized that the #1 engine was fast approaching my position and threatening to overtake me. I had to back up rapidly to avoid the danger that it posed. At this time; I looked at my final marshaller and he hadn't yet realized what was going on; he wasn't even providing any hand signals because he was looking at me waiting for me to turn the plane (which I didn't); yet the plane was still coming. At the last moments; the final marshaller managed to signal for the plane to stop in time to hit his mark and not over shoot the stopping line. We were all baffled. We were hoping to speak with a flight deck crew member on their walk around; but nobody came down to perform a walk around. We are assuming that they just left after passengers deplaned.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.