I think it was like this:
The attendant guy told him to sit down and buckle up and put on a life vest. He goes into the cabin, then walks back to the doorway place with his hands on the open-frame above him. IF the plane jolted right then he would've been ok with his hands up there... but he says to Tom: "Where's your life vest?" and then he takes his hands away from the frame, then the plane jolts and his head gets very messed up, damn that part was messed.
Ollie