A passenger accused of Going for a racist tirade during a Ryanair flight apologizes, according to an interview with "Good Morning Britain" of ITV, on Friday.

The incident became viral after the publication of a social media video showing a man throwing racist insults at an old black woman sitting in the same row and demanding that she travel on a Barcelona-London flight .

The cheap airline, which did not compel the man to quit the fight after the incident, tweeted Sunday that she had viewed the film and had reported on the incident. incident to the police.

During the interview, the passenger, David Mesher, apologized to the woman that he insulted, saying, "I apologize for all the distress you've had there- down and since. "

"I probably lost my temper and ordered him to get up," he said. "I'm by no means a racist person and I think it's just a tantrum at the time."

In a statement to ITV News, the woman in question, Delsie Gayle, said she had not accepted the apology.

"It will take a long time for me to accept his apology and all the rest because I feel very weak and degraded for what he calls me so," she said. "It will take a lot of time for me to recover."

Contribute: The Associated Press

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