A B737-300 pilot comments about ramp personnel's failure to clear the gate safety zone of air hoses ...

Narrative:

While being marshaled into gate; I noticed the ground AC hose was in the safety zone and the #1 eng ingestion zone as well. I came to a halt until it was moved as far as they could get it out of the way. Due to piled snow that was on the safety zone line itself; ZZZ ground operations was really not able to sufficiently get the hose carriage out of the safety zone; nor could the jetway be moved far enough back to get the hose carriage to be clear. Four legs; four cities; and not one of them can seem to provide a clear safety zone and follow procedures. This is an accident in waiting and it needs to be fixed before we destroy another engine or worse yet; get someone killed.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B737-300 pilot comments about Ramp personnel's failure to clear the gate safety zone of air hoses and a jetway because of insufficiently cleared snow at the last four company destinations.

Narrative: While being marshaled into gate; I noticed the ground AC hose was in the safety zone and the #1 eng ingestion zone as well. I came to a halt until it was moved as far as they could get it out of the way. Due to piled snow that was on the safety zone line itself; ZZZ Ground Operations was really not able to sufficiently get the hose carriage out of the safety zone; nor could the jetway be moved far enough back to get the hose carriage to be clear. Four legs; four cities; and not one of them can seem to provide a clear safety zone and follow procedures. This is an accident in waiting and it needs to be fixed before we destroy another engine or worse yet; get someone killed.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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	819677
Time
Date	200901
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-300
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 261
Person 2
Function	Ramp Crew
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Other Snow Mounds

A B737-300 pilot comments about ramp personnel's failure to clear the gate safety zone of air hoses and a jetway because of insufficiently cleared snow at the last four company destinations.