Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100; Flight Crew Total 18000; Flight Crew Type 8500
Communication Breakdown; Fatigue; Situational Awareness
Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Person / Animal / Bird
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
17 hours on duty; divert to ZZZ1; non-standard pushback procedure. Cleared to start saw tug clear. [We were] busy with weather and cockpit duties; lost awareness of guideman; started taxi and immediately stopped; rolled 1 foot; heard guidman on interphone; he disconnected and within 3 seconds was out holding pin; clear to taxi.
During pushback I was starting engines. I heard the Captain say the tow tug had left. When I finished starting engines the Captain called for taxi clearance. I got the clearance. As soon as we started to move the Captain stopped the plane. He saw someone by the aircraft nose. He waited for them to move clear before continuing.
B747 flight crew began to taxi before receiving a salute from the guideman; still connected to the aircraft by his headset.