An air carrier captain reported that after his aircraft was pushed back in fll a foreign carrier cre...

Narrative:

We pushed back from our gate in fll. The ground crew positioned the aircraft just right of the taxi line with the right wing just abeam the next gate. We started the #1 engine [to] set up for a single engine taxi. The ground crew disconnected and gave the all clear sign. We called for taxi and were cleared to taxi. We cleared left and right; but the first officer noted that our two wing walkers had stopped just forward of the right wing and were looking aft. The first officer said there was a B-737 trying to taxi between our aircraft and the aircraft parked on the next gate. We held position and waited for the B-737 to pass. We estimate the wing tips were within 5 ft of each other and no wing walkers. The ground crew should be able to tell you how close the wing tip was to the tail of the aircraft parked at the next gate. This was clearly a careless and reckless action on the part of the foreign air carrier's flight crew. Fll ground must have cleared the flight to taxi but did not tell him the follow our flight.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier Captain reported that after his aircraft was pushed back in FLL a foreign carrier crew taxied a B737 between his aircraft and another aircraft parked in the next gate. The wing tips were very close.

Narrative: We pushed back from our gate in FLL. The ground crew positioned the aircraft just right of the taxi line with the right wing just abeam the next gate. We started the #1 engine [to] set up for a single engine taxi. The ground crew disconnected and gave the all clear sign. We called for taxi and were cleared to taxi. We cleared left and right; but the First Officer noted that our two wing walkers had stopped just forward of the right wing and were looking aft. The First Officer said there was a B-737 trying to taxi between our aircraft and the aircraft parked on the next gate. We held position and waited for the B-737 to pass. We estimate the wing tips were within 5 FT of each other and no wing walkers. The ground crew should be able to tell you how close the wing tip was to the tail of the aircraft parked at the next gate. This was clearly a careless and reckless action on the part of the foreign air carrier's flight crew. FLL Ground must have cleared the flight to taxi but did not tell him the follow our flight.

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	920435
Time
Date	201011
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	FLL.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 129
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Less Severe

An air carrier captain reported that after his aircraft was pushed back in fll a foreign carrier crew taxied a B737 between his aircraft and another aircraft parked in the next gate. The wing tips were very close.