However Billy is gruesomely decapitated from the jaw up by a piece of the cars shrapnel thrown by the train wheels.Īlex believes that because he intervened in Carter's death he has saved Carter, Death skipped Carter and went on to Billy. Alex rushes to help Carter from his car, and as he foresaw, Carter's seat-belt rips and he is freed a second before the train destroys the car, thus cheating Death. At the last moment however he changes his mind but cannot exit his car as his seat-belt is jammed. Frustrated with not having control over his death, Carter attempts to drive head-on into a fuel tanker but the car seemingly by itself turns and avoids the collision, Carter then stops his car on a train crossing, wanting to kill himself before Death does. As they are riding in Carter's car, Alex has another vision of a train and a seat-belt ripping. He rushes to her house but arrives too late to save her from being impaled in the chest with a knife.Īlex contacts the remaining survivors, Billy, Clear and Carter, to tell them what he thinks is happening. After watching a news report detailing the cause of the explosion of Flight 180 Alex comes to the conclusion that Death is killing the survivors in the order they would have died in the explosion on the plane.
Terry falls victim the next day when she is hit by a bus. When Alex and Clear go to see his body, mysterious mortician William Bludworth ( Tony Todd) tells them that Death is intervening to kill everyone who was meant to die on the plane. One month later, Tod is strangled in his shower, and his death is deemed a suicide. The survivors are devastated, and two FBI agents interview the people taken off the plane, and are particularly interested with Alex's vision. After they are all forced off the plane, none of the passengers believes that Alex's vision will come true until the airliner takes off and explodes in mid-air, killing everyone who was on board. The resulting commotion leads to a handful of passengers being left behind, including Alex, orphan Clear Rivers, Alex's best friend Tod Waggner, teacher Valerie Lewton, Alex's rival Carter Horton, Carter's girlfriend Terry Chaney, and student Billy Hitchcock.
When events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics and attempts to stop the flightīefore take-off. Alex then finds himself back on the plane while it is still boarding. Before Volée Air Flight 180's take-off, Alex has a premonition that the flight will explode in mid-air, killing everybody on board. Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.Īlex Browning is going on a high school graduation trip to Paris with his fellow students.