I bet this was a bit scarey for any passengers!

Note the rudder on full deflection.
I think it might have been a bit over the cross wind limit! :woohoo:

Maybe because it has no engines it will be tail-heavy making it easier for the wind to lift the nose like it did. :huh:

erm, yes, well, :oops:

As the engines are around the c of g, that wouldn't have made much difference.
I've not seen a big jet doing that, but I've seen light-planes being blown about by sudden gusts at Barton.
For some reason I don't understand, control locks fasten the stick fully back, so to my biased viewpoint, if a strong breeze hits the plane on the nose, the tail will go down, putting the wing into positive a of a. If the wind is behind, the tail will lift.
A mate used to have a share in a Cherokee 180, there, and I suggested he fasten the stick forwards when he left it. Even though he was a full-size and model plane pilot, he couldn't see what I was on about - a headwind will lift the tail, making the plane squat down, and a tail wind will press the tail down, with the same effect.

The engines make an enormous differance to the balance point, when the dreamliner--and the 747s where parked up, awaiting engines at rhe boring plant, they would routinely fasten concrete blocks on the pylons to stop them doing exactly this, besides, the things scrap, NOW, who would like to drive a bulldozer through one, ME for one!!! love to break one up