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A large widebody cargo aircrew reported making an emergency stop to avoid being struck by a ground vehicle while turning into the gate.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1335821 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201602 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Widebody Low Wing 3 Turbojet Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Ground Event / Encounter Vehicle |
Narrative:
After visually clearing the aircraft gate silhouette; the captain started his right turn into gate. A tug with several dollies loaded with ulds was observed penetrating the silhouette at a high rate of speed from the gate area. Captain and first officer both stepped on the brakes to emergency stop the aircraft to avoid hitting the tug. The tug driver locked up his brakes; jack-knifing the tug sideways and skidding over considerable distance to stop. Tug driver then drove off like nothing had happened.since the aircraft nose wheel was in a full right turn when the aircraft emergency stop occurred and was suspected of having sustained heavy side loading; crew elected to shut down engines and await a maintenance inspection on the gear before being towed the remaining distance into the gate. Tow in was uneventful. Crew made appropriate aml write-ups; debriefed crew actions as appropriate and safe; then departed aircraft. Ramp manager met with crew upon block in to advise the tug driver had been suspended.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A large Widebody cargo aircrew reported making an emergency stop to avoid being struck by a ground vehicle while turning into the gate.
Narrative: After visually clearing the aircraft gate silhouette; the Captain started his right turn into gate. A tug with several dollies loaded with ULDs was observed penetrating the silhouette at a high rate of speed from the gate area. Captain and FO both stepped on the brakes to emergency stop the aircraft to avoid hitting the tug. The tug driver locked up his brakes; jack-knifing the tug sideways and skidding over considerable distance to stop. Tug driver then drove off like nothing had happened.Since the aircraft nose wheel was in a full right turn when the aircraft emergency stop occurred and was suspected of having sustained heavy side loading; crew elected to shut down engines and await a maintenance inspection on the gear before being towed the remaining distance into the gate. Tow in was uneventful. Crew made appropriate AML write-ups; debriefed crew actions as appropriate and safe; then departed aircraft. Ramp manager met with crew upon block in to advise the tug driver had been suspended.
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.