He assumes a cross like position with arms out reached as officals remove him from the plane. His behavior forces a small number of students off the plane for a later flight. Note the camera angle and the use of clocks, and a claustrophobic high tension room with closed doors and no windows. The clock is an ever present symbol in this film. The FBI questioning is done as the eleventh hour approaches.
Bible students know the eleventh hour as symbolic of the time before the end.
The surviving ones have escaped their destiny with death. The film makes it clear that no one can escape the inevitability of death. Here is a powerful film for group discussion. Ultimately Alex comes to believe that somehow he and the others cheated death. One by one, as each of these fugitives of fate meets an untimely end, Alex and his remaining friends must band together to change the course of destiny and outwit the untamable forces of death.