A319 first officer reports a near collision with a B747 during taxi into an alley gate. The B747 was...

Narrative:

We were cleared into the alleyway to proceed to the gate from ramp control. As one taxis in; that gate is on your right. Unknown to us; at a gate (on our left); a B747 had taxied in sometime before us. However; they did not taxi the entire way into the gate. They had stopped short of the gate; and were in the process of being towed in by a tug the rest of the way. We were cleared into our gate by ramp control. As we were clearing the area to our right; I saw a blue flash in my peripheral vision to the left -- and saw the right winglet of the 747 dangerously close to our left side. I told the captain to 'stop' which he did abruptly. A wing-walker/marshaller was also giving the stop sign. It seemed like the B747 tug team pushed their aircraft backwards during their tow-in. If we had continued straight ahead; our left wing would have gone under the B747 wing by several feet. When we queried ramp; the controller only said; yeah; they usually take forever to tow-in that B747. We were cleared in by this same ramp controller -- never apprised of the tow-in in progress.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A319 First Officer reports a near collision with a B747 during taxi into an alley gate. The B747 was under tow into a gate on the opposite side of the alley and may have been pushed back slightly. Ramp Control did not mention that the B747 was under tow.

Narrative: We were cleared into the Alleyway to proceed to the gate from ramp control. As one taxis in; that gate is on your right. Unknown to us; at a gate (on our left); a B747 had taxied in sometime before us. However; they did not taxi the entire way into the gate. They had stopped short of the gate; and were in the process of being towed in by a tug the rest of the way. We were cleared into our gate by ramp control. As we were clearing the area to our right; I saw a blue flash in my peripheral vision to the left -- and saw the right winglet of the 747 dangerously close to our left side. I told the Captain to 'STOP' which he did abruptly. A wing-walker/marshaller was also giving the stop sign. It seemed like the B747 tug team pushed their aircraft backwards during their tow-in. If we had continued straight ahead; our left wing would have gone under the B747 wing by several feet. When we queried ramp; the controller only said; Yeah; they usually take forever to tow-in that B747. We were cleared in by this same ramp controller -- never apprised of the tow-in in progress.

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	1203868
Time
Date	201409
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A319
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	B747 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40 Flight Crew Total 9000 Flight Crew Type 3000
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A319 first officer reports a near collision with a B747 during taxi into an alley gate. The B747 was under tow into a gate on the opposite side of the alley and may have been pushed back slightly. Ramp control did not mention that the B747 was under tow.