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Plane lifted into back garden as bunker takes shape
Dave Billings captured footage of the crane lifting the plane into place for his YouTube channel, Tornado Dave
When asked why he had lifted a section of a former plane into the ground in his back garden, Dave Billings shrugged his shoulders and said: "Why not?"
The 45-year-old recently used a huge crane to lower the fuselage of an old Bmibaby Boeing 737-500 into a large hole in his lawn, after buying it online for £4,000.
A team of volunteers helped to lower the aircraft cabin into position at his home in Hilton in Derbyshire.
Dave has now adapted it to allow the space to become an underground "man cave", and it will ultimately connect to an existing underground room beneath his garden.
Dave - pictured inside the aircraft - bought the redundant fuselage section of a Bmibaby aircraft for £4,000
Dave said he first saw the listing for the plane on Facebook Marketplace.
He added: "I thought, you know what? I could buy that, but what I'm gonna do with it?"
The first friend he discussed the idea with told him it was "silly", so he went to his seven-year-old son for guidance.
"He says, 'dad, you've got to buy that'. I'm like 'OK'," Dave said.