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Yea be careful on those pushbacks. We do them pretty much all of the time at the larger airports where they park you into an alley with other dashes and RJ's wingtip to wingtip.
The other week we were doing a pushback, and the rampers, after connecting the tow bar to the airplane correctly, neglected to connect the tug to the towbar, just rested it up against it i suppose (no pin). Anyrate, he started pushing us, made a very wide turn and slowed down and/or hit the brakes, and the tug stopped and we just kept on rolling back with the towbar connected, no engines started yet. The tow bar and nose gear ended up doing a full 360 turn beneath us, made an awful sound. Needless to say that plane sat there for a while right in the top of the alley while we deplaned the pax, etc. Shame. It isnt required that we have headset comm. with the drivers, and they didnt this night.
And it was the last leg back home on the end of a 4-day trip, why does s*** always break on the last leg home????????