Originally Posted by
CrandallCrawler
At Southwest the captain gives an engine cut hand signal to the marshaller who then relays that signal to the gate crew before anyone walks into the safety zone, screw relying on looking at a beacon light. Sounds like that needs to be implemented at AA, on top of shutting down the #2 when you have an inop APU. its beyond me how you somehow don’t notice an engine running though and try to open the cargo hold door
Just because there is a procedure doesn't mean it will be followed. I'm retired from Southwest and there were more times than I cared to count where the Marshaller gave the all clear signal and I still had the engines running and hadn't given the all clear signal. Even more numerous was having just shut down the engines and seeing the Marshaller giving the all clear signal before I had given him the signal.