Sunrise host visibly puzzled during wild interview about Singapore Airlines emergency

A serious interview about the Singapore Airlines midair emergency took a bizarre turn on Sunrise this morning, with host Nat Barr left visibly puzzled.

Nat Barr visibly squirmed through a chaotic Sunrise interview about the Singapore Airlines midair emergency that left one dead and dozens injured.

Almost 60 Australians were on-board flight SQ321 from London to Singapore on Tuesday when the Boeing 777-300ER struck extreme turbulence 11 hours into the journey. Footage and photos have emerged showing passengers smashing into the ceiling as the plane repeatedly plunged thousands of feet.

The Channel 7 breakfast program welcomed CNN aviation expert Richard Quest on-air to explain what went wrong.

But the interview quickly took a turbulent turn when Quest – a British journalist – described the dramatic events with rather extreme fervour as he pulled out several props to re-enact the “damage and destruction”.

“So here’s your plane,” Quest began, as he pulled a miniature plane replica into frame.

Nat Barr has squirmed through a chaotic interview on Sunrise about the Singapore flight drama.

Quest continued, “It’s going along, alright, but then there’s bad weather ahead over Myanmar, and for whatever reason, either pilots ahead or air traffic control, no one really tells them about it, and they start to do this,” he said, as he simulated the plane dropping.

Then, Quest held up a small piece of paper with dozens of non-visible numbers on it, in which one column was highlighted in yellow.

“The numbers in yellow show that the plane only went up and down by several hundred feet at a time,” he said of the document.

CNN correspondent Richard Quest produced a series of props during the interview.

“It would go up a hundred, down two hundred, up 50, down 75 … But, the velocity of the plane, the force was so intense,” he continued.

“And it’s these smallish movements with tremendous force that creates this damage and destruction that you see.”

Cut to co-host Barr, who appeared bemused by Quest’s animated demonstration.

The props didn’t end there, with Quest producing yet another object when asked how passengers’ were being flung into the air.

“Let me just find something I can use as a prop,” he said, as he scurried around the desk in front of him before finding a makeup compact.

“Imagine this is one of the people, it a makeup puff,” he went on.

The aviation expert used a makeup product to simulate passengers being flung into the air.

“The plane’s flying along and suddenly it drops,” he said, before dropping the product.

“The roof is [up] here, and they hit it,” he continued, as he clashed the product with his hand.

Finishing the interview, Barr asked if the emergency was an important reminder for passengers to wear seatbelts during flights.

“What sort of idiot would sit in a metal tube that’s bouncing through the air at five or six hundred miles an hour in unpredictable circumstances without being tied down?” Quest asked.

“If I put those facts to you, that’s what we’re talking about.

“I’m not going to preach and lecture, because I’m as guilty as you are!” he concluded.

British man Geoff Kitchen, 73, died on board after suffering a heart attack as the turbulence hit, while another 71 people were injured before the plane made an emergency landing in Bangkok, Thailand.

Footage from inside the plane shows the scale of the destruction — an entire ceiling section of a food preparation area destroyed with wreckage hanging down, debris strewn all throughout the aisles and walkways, multiple blood stains visible on upper sections of the cabin and overhead lockers.

Other video and images taken on-board showed bleeding and terrified passengers and crew waiting to land, with multiple ceiling panels broken and gas masks dangling.

Most of the injured passengers on the flight suffered blows to the head, said the director of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, Kittipong Kittikachorn, who confirmed the age and nationality of the deceased man.

Emergency vehicles raced onto the tarmac at the Thai capital’s main airport with lights flashing and sirens blaring after the plane touched down at 3.45pm local time (6.45pm AEST).

“At 3.35pm the airport received a distress call from the Singapore Airlines flight saying there were passengers on board injured by turbulence, and requesting an emergency landing,” Suvarnabhumi Airport said in a statement.

“The plane landed at the airport and the medical team was sent to treat all the injured.”