The OP asked if Shiney 10 had ever bent a VC10. I suspect that 810 in the photo at Belize wasn't bent as Vickers used to build ships, tanks, submarines and aircraft all to the same standard. All it would have required is pulling out of the mud and a bit of a wash.
808 sitting on it's tail did happen as Stuart Sutcliffe described - the fuel guage was U/S and written up as such. The defuel team missed it. The aircraft was a write off as it damaged the rear pressure bulkhead and it was deemed beyond repair. But it was base hangar who did this and therefore techncally not by 10 Sqn.
A C1 did get it's belly skin wrinkled in a heavy landing during a pilot conversion in about 1998.
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