Blimey ! Was that refuelling ?
Smudge
Someone will know the story a bit better, but the VC10 sitting on it's 4rse was caused, I believe, by a de-fuel process where the ground engineers forgot that there was 5 tonnes of fuel in the fin tank, which should have been taken out first! I think the fin tank gauge was U/S at the time?
The whole incident was made a little more exciting because there were some folk in the cargo/baggage bay at the time (you can see the partially open sliding door of that compartment just behind and below the RAF roundel). The door to that compartment slides inwards and forwards when open, so as soon as the aircraft sat up to 'beg', the door slid rearwards and then closed itself!