AN engineer is building a £20,000 bunker in an old 737 jet airliner in case war comes to the UK.
Dave Billings is converting the £4,000 Boeing fuselage into the shelter which he will bury in his garden.
Son Oliver, seven, will decorate it.
The family live on an ex-Army base in Hilton, Derbys, and Dave, 44, built his first bunker there in 2015.
He said: “It’s a good place to be if stuff goes wrong.
“Ten miles from a blast and you’re probably all right.
“I don’t understand why this thing with Iran has just happened, but war seems to be very fashionable at the moment.
“Whatever happens, the best thing you can do is be prepared and if you’re 10 miles away from a blast, you’ll probably be alright in it, it would stop the radiation going down there.
“The plan is, if it’s not a fallout shelter it’s going to be a bar, a party room in the theme of a fallout shelter kitted out with all the bits so you won’t get bored down there as well as just surviving.
“You need some activities, don’t you?
“But there’s a lot of room to do things in there.
“I mean, it’s a Boeing 737, they’re pretty big!”
He said: “I’m still building this for fun at the moment. If I was a prepper, I’d be stopping everything else to get on with it. I do these things because they’re cool, I enjoy it.
“But this one’s a cool thing that’s got a purpose; it can be classed as functionable.
“If things escalate and it is going to be needed, I can speed the job up, but I don’t think anyone will bomb the Derbyshire Dales.”
