Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Ramp; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Procedure; Aircraft; Human Factors
Ramp Control cleared us to push straight back which we did. After taxi checklist was complete the FO (First Officer) requested taxi instructions. Ramp Control said; 'Cleared to turn left and proceed to Spot XX.' I visually cleared left as far as I could see and saw no aircraft. When turning left I stopped the aircraft immediately when I saw us turning into a line [of] aircraft. They swerved to the left to avoid us. I had no chance to see aircraft coming behind me and had to rely solely on Ramp Control to be my eyes behind me. When the FO queried the unsafe taxi instructions the Ramp Controller replied back; 'It happens.'Relied entirely on Ramp Controller to be my eyes behind the aircraft.Please ask the Ramp Controller to realize we can't see behind us. We should not have been cleared to taxi with the line of aircraft behind us.
Captain reported that the push back crew did not allow a line of taxiing aircraft to pass by and forced the aircraft to deviate to the left to avoid collisions with his aircraft.