<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1190027, July 2014

An air carrier captain made an abrupt and aggressive stop on ord taxiway D to avoid collision with a catering truck driven without regard for other traffic or aircraft.

Attributes
ACN	1190027
Time
Date	201407
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ORD.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Widebody Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
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)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250 Flight Crew Total 19000 Flight Crew Type 7000
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

During taxi in we were told to hold short of taxiway D and give way to another air carrier. When the traffic cleared and we were cleared to the terminal a catering truck came out of almost nowhere; passing a truck at the stop line on the service road; and cut us off so close that the right side of the truck was obscured by the nose of our aircraft. I braked very abruptly and aggressively to avoid a collision. We reported this to ground control and were given a number to call the tower.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Air Carrier Captain made an abrupt and aggressive stop on ORD Taxiway D to avoid collision with a catering truck driven without regard for other traffic or aircraft.

Narrative: During taxi in we were told to hold short of Taxiway D and give way to another Air Carrier. When the traffic cleared and we were cleared to the terminal a catering truck came out of almost nowhere; passing a truck at the stop line on the service road; and cut us off so close that the right side of the truck was obscured by the nose of our aircraft. I braked very abruptly and aggressively to avoid a collision. We reported this to Ground Control and were given a number to call the Tower.

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.