B757-200
Communication Breakdown
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Airport; Human Factors; Procedure
In order to understand the situation; Air Carrier Y's gates face south and my Air Carrier's gates' face west. For the aircraft to get out to the runways; Taxiway Charlie can be accessed by several taxiways; one of those taxiways being Taxiway Bravo. Shortly after Air Carrier Y's Airbus pushed back off of their gate and subsequently taxied out to Taxiway Charlie via Taxiway Bravo; I; ground support personnel; being the pushback tractor driver on Air Carrier X's 757 gate; was given permission for pushback by [our] Air Carrier X's pilot of the 757-200 outbound flight and proceeded to push the above aircraft back into the ramp area behind Air Carrier Y's gates. I had already stopped once for Air Carrier Y's Airbus that had bypassed the Bravo Taxiway that leads into the ramp area for both air carriers; while using caution since aircraft are always arriving and departing. I had no sooner resumed the pushback from our gate pushing my Air Carrier X's B757-200 towards the ramp area behind Air Carrier Y's gates; when I had to do a rapid; but safe stop of the outbound B757 flight due to a 2nd Airbus A321 aircraft from Air Carrier Y that rapidly came flying into the ramp/gate area off of Taxiway Bravo; narrowly clearing/missing the back of our Air Carrier X's B757-200. My Lead also stated that he too saw the events above happen as well.
A ramp ground support tractor driver describes his efforts to safely push a company outbound B757-200 off of their west facing terminal gates past another air carrier's south facing gates to access Taxiway Bravo. Although cleared for continued pushback; an inbound A321 aircraft suddenly appeared; taxiing into the ramp area narrowly clearing; missing the back of their B757 aircraft.