For some of you drama queens, here is a picture of an A320. Notice how the main gear is behind the engines?
When groundcrew normally pushes you back with the tail sticking far out on to the grass in LGW from these stands, do you really believe that there is constant debris flying backwards? The worrying thing here is that it seems it has become a sport in LGW to pushback aircraft as close as possible to the pavement edge from a mainwheel perspective.
But clearly the engines nor the nosewheel would be over unpaved surface if the main wheels are just over the edge. So all those dramatic videos are completely unrelated.
The plane was disembarked, nobody powered out. What is this thread even about?