Formerly flying 380 passengers, it was converted into a 118-seat restaurant with large numbers of the seats removed in order to provide adequate space for patrons and for the installation of dining tables.

These included staples such as spiced tilapia, served with banku, a type of maize-based porridge.

[4] In June 2002, the plane was impounded at London Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom, following unpaid debts of £4 million owned by the national carrier to parts supplier AJ Walters Aviation, causing services between Accra, the UK and Italy to be temporarily suspended.

[1] Following this, the plane was abandoned and left at Kotoka Airport; over the course of the following years, various parts were sold for scrap, including the three engines.

[1] Ask the Pilot columnist Patrick Smith visited the restaurant in 2016; his review was later published in Business Insider.

He criticised the "lack of context" given to the restaurant, as he would have enjoyed seeing photos of the plane when it was in use as a passenger jet.