Narrative:

We were taxiing into [the] gate. It was still very dark on the ramp and wet. After lining up on the j-line; the ground crew directed us to continue forward with a deice truck in the safety zone. I stopped and flashed the left turnoff light on the truck and pointed at the truck. The ground crew continued to motion us forward; but the deice truck driver saw us flashing the lights and moved the truck himself. Then the crew directed us to proceed forward again; but stopped us again because the auxiliary ground power unit was in the nose area safety zone. Finally we started to taxi forward again and came to a normal stop and shut down the engines. When the agent came aboard; he said that we had been stopped too far forward on the 737-800 stop line. It was about eight feet past the 737-700 line. The agent said that he moved the jetway back as we were stopping because we were marshaled within one foot of the jetway with the engine nacelle. There was no contact with any part of the aircraft to the jetway; but it was close. He had the ramp supervisor come up stairs to ask what happened. The supervisor said that the crew had both just finished training and were placed together too soon.

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Title: B737-700 Captain reported being directed onto the B737-800 parking spot which resulted in a close encounter with a jetway.

Narrative: We were taxiing into [the] gate. It was still very dark on the ramp and wet. After lining up on the J-line; the Ground Crew directed us to continue forward with a deice truck in the Safety Zone. I stopped and flashed the left turnoff light on the truck and pointed at the truck. The Ground Crew continued to motion us forward; but the Deice Truck Driver saw us flashing the lights and moved the truck himself. Then the Crew directed us to proceed forward again; but stopped us again because the auxiliary ground power unit was in the nose area Safety Zone. Finally we started to taxi forward again and came to a normal stop and shut down the engines. When the Agent came aboard; he said that we had been stopped too far forward on the 737-800 stop line. It was about eight feet past the 737-700 line. The Agent said that he moved the jetway back as we were stopping because we were marshaled within one foot of the jetway with the engine nacelle. There was no contact with any part of the aircraft to the jetway; but it was close. He had the Ramp Supervisor come up stairs to ask what happened. The Supervisor said that the Crew had both just finished training and were placed together too soon.

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.