An airport worker accused of importing $2.2 million worth of drugs that allegedly fell out of a parked plane told a jury he had nothing to do with it.

Macai Bean also claimed he managed to save up $15,000 found in his house by Police through working and playing Crown and Anchor.

According to prosecutors, Bermuda Aviation Services (BAS) Bean, 25, drove a sanitation truck up to the Delta flight that arrived from Boston at 11.40 a.m on September 1 2008.

A blue duffel bag dropped out of the aircraft hold and landed by another BAS employee who is said to have kicked it towards Bean. He is alleged to have picked it up, carried it to the truck and driven off.

A search was launched after a security guard reported seeing the suspicious activity. Two hours later, the bag was found by a Customs officer near the waste dump at the airport. It contained 18 kilograms of cannabis and half a kilo of heroin, with a total street value of $2.28 million.

Bean, of Main Road, Sandys was arrested later that day. He denies conspiring with others to import heroin and cannabis and possessing it with intent to supply.

Taking the witness stand at Supreme Court to give evidence in his own defence, Bean said he cleaned the flight that day but had nothing to do with the drugs.

"Basically I did my duties on the Delta and as far as the blue duffel bag I had no knowledge or anything to know about that bag."

The court heard on Wednesday that when the Police searched his home the day after his arrest, they found $15,000 in cash in one of his boots underneath his bed.

He told the jury this was his "life savings." Asked by defence lawyer Charles Richardson if this was payment he received for picking up the drugs off the plane, he denied that was the case.

"Basically I work 24/7. If I go out, I have a drink and come home. I make six o'clock in the mornings and what not. Basically I save money, that's what I do," he said.

The court has previously heard that Bean earned in the region of $20 to $23 an hour working for B.A.S. Asked how he managed to save $15,000 he replied: "I will go to a county game, I will play Crown and Anchor and have money in my pocket and stash it off. I don't really go nowhere so I stash off what I have. Basically I just save money because on a rainy day you need money."

He agreed that he drove the sanitation truck that day, but said others were also allowed to drive it and he saw his supervisor driving it as well.

Bean also told the court that he has no criminal convictions, and when he was first arrested he was led to believe it was over a warrant relating to a traffic fine.

The case continues, with the jury likely to be sent out to consider a verdict today.