Originally Posted by
T250
One should be monitoring ATC at all times. I repeat, at all times.
The recording makes it clear that the tug crew had already prudently aborted the pushback by the time the controller tried unsuccessfully to contact the BA crew, so by that stage the damage had been done (or, rather, avoided in this instance).
Well done that ATCO
Well apart from clearing the pushback into the path of another aircraft, that is.