The lady is elderly. So, presumably, is her husband. But others on the plane are also missing. On flights all over the skies, they're gone. The rest of the people in the film have been . . .
Nobody knows why.
In the movie, it's a huge mystery, even a national security issue. The problem here, for both the screenwriter and fundamentalist theologians, is the trumpet. The trumpet is prominent in both passages. Because the movie is about the secret Rapture. They will have trouble figuring out just what has happened.