 He was appointed Minister for Transport, making his brief one of the largest and most wide-ranging in the government.As Minister for Transport, Reynolds was involved in a bizarre incident, in which an Aer Lingus plane was hijacked by a disturbed former monk, with the hijacker's chief demand for the safe return of the aircraft and its passengers being that he should be allowed to reveal a religious secret, the Third Secret of Fatima, which he claimed to have in his briefcase.The incident was resolved in Paris with no injuries.