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A pilot began taxiing at sea on the new blue line closest to the terminal. An orange line aircraft's ground crew; slightly behind and outboard of the blue line; headed to the terminal and ran in front of the lead taxiing aircraft.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1285173 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201508 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | SEA.Airport |
| State Reference | WA |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Large Transport |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
Company aircraft pushed first to the orange line (far line) tail east. We then pushed to the blue line (near line) tail east. Company aircraft ended up slightly behind and to the right of us. We started engines; performed checklists; disconnected from tug; received wave off as per company procedure. We received clearance to taxi from ramp. Just as we were bringing power up to taxi; push crew from company aircraft raced (literally running like hell) across our path right to left to get back to gate. If we had not cleared the area before proceeding we could have run over them. That would be bad. This is something I had not considered before with respect to the dual taxi line procedures. We probably need to put a warning in the 10-7; as well as have ramp advise the near aircraft that a push crew may be returning to the gate and crossing their path. With apologies; I don't have a great suggestion yet on this. Dual taxilane procedures do not seem to allow for a ground crew pushing to the far taxi line any safe way to return to gate.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A pilot began taxiing at SEA on the new BLUE line closest to the terminal. An ORANGE line aircraft's ground crew; slightly behind and outboard of the BLUE line; headed to the terminal and ran in front of the lead taxiing aircraft.
Narrative: Company aircraft pushed first to the ORANGE line (far line) tail east. We then pushed to the BLUE line (near line) tail East. Company aircraft ended up slightly behind and to the right of us. We started engines; performed checklists; disconnected from tug; received wave off as per company procedure. We received clearance to taxi from ramp. Just as we were bringing power up to taxi; push crew from company aircraft raced (literally running like hell) across our path right to left to get back to gate. If we had not cleared the area before proceeding we could have run over them. That would be bad. This is something I had not considered before with respect to the dual taxi line procedures. We probably need to put a warning in the 10-7; as well as have ramp advise the near aircraft that a push crew may be returning to the gate and crossing their path. With apologies; I don't have a great suggestion yet on this. Dual taxilane procedures do not seem to allow for a ground crew pushing to the far taxi line any safe way to return to gate.
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.