Natalie Barr struggled to contain herself live on television Wednesday morning when she conducted a bizarre interview with CNN correspondent Richard Quest.
The British journalist, 62, was very energetic when he appeared on Sunrise to give details on the fatal aviation disaster which also left eight Aussies injured on Tuesday.
In a particularly animated discussion with the breakfast show anchor, 56, Richard used several props, including a ‘makeup puff’, and left Nat fighting not to laugh.
The interview began with shocking images from the Singapore Airlines flight which hit turbulence so severe musical theatre director Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, was killed.
Baggage and food items were flung around inside the Boeing 777 plane when it flew into a tropical storm over Myanmar and plummeted 6,000ft in just five minutes.
Natalia Barr, 56, (left) struggled to contain herself live on television Wednesday morning when she conducted a bizarre interview with CNN correspondent Richard Quest, 62, (right)
Richard attempted to explain how panels and compartment doors within the aircraft could have been ripped off, injuring more than 70 people in total.
But when he whipped out a model airplane and began waving it up and down, Nat found herself struggling to keep a straight face.
‘The numbers show the plane only went up and down by several hundred feet at a time. It would go up 100, down 200… but the force was so intense,’ he said.
Richard then began abruptly waving the model plane up and down as he attempted to re-enact what the passengers onboard the terrifying flight experienced.
‘It’s these smallish movements but with tremendous force that creates the damage and destruction you see,’ he added.
The British journalist was very energetic when he appeared on Sunrise to give details on the horrific aviation disaster which left eight Aussies injured on Tuesday
In a particularly animated discussion with the breakfast show anchor, 56, Richard used several props, including a ‘makeup puff’, and left Nat fighting not to laugh
At that point, Nat attempted to pull herself back together and carry on the interview, asking Richard to explain how the baggage compartments became ‘broken’.
‘That takes force for someone to fly up into the air and break it. Why would that have happened? Would that be because people didn’t have their seatbelts on?’ she said.
Richard responded, ‘Let me find a prop,’ before proceeding to whip out a makeup puff and say: ‘Imagine this is one of the people. It’s just a makeup puff.’
Nat broke into a smile as Richard demonstrated with the compact how passengers were thrown into the roof of the plane when it dropped through the air.
‘That’s exactly what happens to people on the plane. Think of an egg in a bottle. If you shake the bottle, the egg is going to break,’ he said.
The interview began with shocking images from the Singapore Airlines flight which hit turbulence so severe musical theatre director Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, (pictured) was killed
‘Is this a reminder, for all of us, who probably think… I won’t put my seatbelt on? Although they warn us to put our seatbelt on?’ Nat asked.
Richard responded: ‘Let me ask you a blunt question, 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?’
When the camera cut back to Nat, the breakfast show host could be seen biting her lip and looking off camera to her team in the studio as she attempted not to laugh.
It comes as the British passenger who died onboard the Singapore Airlines jet travelling from the UK was identified as Geoffrey Kitchen from Gloucestershire.
The pensioner died from a suspected heart attack, officials said, with Geoffrey’s wife Linda thought to be among the injured who are currently in hospital.
Tributes have poured in for Geoffrey, who ran Thornbury Musical Theatre group and is said to be a grandfather, with heartbroken friends describing him as ‘adventurous’ and ‘a really nice guy’.
Baggage and food items were flung around inside the Boeing 777 plane when it flew into a tropical storm over Myanmar and plummeted 6,000ft in just five minutes
The retired insurance worker and his wife were heading abroad on a six-week holiday of a lifetime to South East Asia, Indonesia and Australia when disaster struck around 11 hours into their flight from Heathrow.
The aircraft hit an air pocket and plummeted an astonishing 6,000ft in just five minutes, with the sudden drop unleashing mayhem onboard and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport.
Terrified passengers have described how they had little to no warning to put their seatbelts on before the aircraft suddenly dropped while the crew were serving breakfast, with one passenger saying people were ‘launched into the ceiling’ as the plane fell through the sky.
Of the 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, Thai authorities said 71 people had been sent for treatment, six of whom were seriously injured, with many sustaining lacerations to the head as they were thrown upwards.
