When he learnt a Fokker F-28 had crashed after over shooting the runway at Sylhet airport he bought the 29 tonne aircraft at auction from Bangladeshi airlines for £11,000.
He then removed the plane from the crash site by cutting it into four pieces and lifting it onto lorries with a crane.
Once at its destination, Dhaka, the entire plane, including wings and flight deck, was reassembled and refurbished as a restaurant.