Ahok Gajapathi Raju, Civil Aviation Minister

A little worried about what he had said, he quickly tried to make amends by then arguing that matchboxes were not a safety hazard. That might be true; but then why doesn’t his ministry take matchboxes off the list of items that cannot be carried onto a plane? Also, there might not have been any ‘incident worldwide where a matchbox became a threat’, but who is to say what a terrorist can do with the ability to set something on fire inside an aircraft cabin? Perhaps it is time India’s Civil Aviation Minister was also frisked before boarding a flight. At least he won’t then face the hazard of putting his foot in his mouth.