The gunlord, briefly forgetting something, pulled the pages of the pamphlet that he ripped out of his pocket and then replaced them back into his pocket while nodding.
The prayer was to make this moment a fixed point in time, so that no time travellers could fly in in their police boxes and stop him from doing what he was about to do.
The plane suddenly did a barrel roll and continued its flight path upside-down as the flight attendant whom everyone had forgotten about attempted to alter the plane's course while eating a tuna.