B757-200 captain reported during single-engine taxi to the gate; jet blast knocked over a can behind...

Narrative:

Turning left into the gate I was at about 9 knots at beginning of turn with the right engine shut down. The thrust was approximately 35% N1 to maintain forward momentum to this uphill gate. When nearly aligned with the lead in line; marshaller indicated to stop. Maintenance towed aircraft to gate. There was a line of cans behind the flight line; and I believe lining them up (air can't escape) and being empty contributed to one of the cans tipping onto a caravan behind the cans. Either have no cans (at least empty ones) behind line and in front of the feeders where the jet blast can topple them into aircraft.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B757-200 Captain reported during single-engine taxi to the gate; jet blast knocked over a can behind the flight line into a Caravan. Crew shut down and obtained a tow to the gate.

Narrative: Turning left into the gate I was at about 9 knots at beginning of turn with the right engine shut down. The thrust was approximately 35% N1 to maintain forward momentum to this uphill gate. When nearly aligned with the lead in line; marshaller indicated to stop. Maintenance towed aircraft to gate. There was a line of cans behind the flight line; and I believe lining them up (air can't escape) and being empty contributed to one of the cans tipping onto a Caravan behind the cans. Either have no cans (at least empty ones) behind line and in front of the feeders where the jet blast can topple them into aircraft.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1507141
Time
Date	201712
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B757-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

B757-200 captain reported during single-engine taxi to the gate; jet blast knocked over a can behind the flight line into a caravan. Crew shut down and obtained a tow to the gate.