B777 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Total 13869; Flight Crew Type 1894
Situational Awareness
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Human Factors
We arrived and awaited a gate. There was several swaps of the gate sent to us via ACARS. We were a 777-200 I don't think whoever was sending us the gate was aware we were a 200. We waited for fifteen minutes for a 777-300 to push then the same ramp crew that pushed the 777-300 accepted our aircraft. We were hand marshaled to the gate with a nose guide man and two wing walkers. We flashed the light and accepted guidance. I stopped the aircraft exactly as directed and shutdown the aircraft. The only problem was the jetway driver abandoned the jetway in fear of getting hit. And then we find out the marshaler parked us on the 777-300 line 20 feet forward of the 777-200 line.We came within inches of hitting the engine nacelle to the jet bridge. Someone is going to get hurt badly; with these kind of mistakes. These wing walkers are worthless if no one is paying attention. Obviously neither of the two caught the mistake of the marshaler (guide man) either.
B777-200 Captain reported being marshaled into a gate and stopped on the -300 mark; narrowly missing engine contact with the jetway.