A man who called a woman an "ugly black bastard" on a flight — in a clip that's been seen more than 7 million times on social media — has apologised and said he's not racist.
David Mesher was reported to police after he verbally abused fellow passenger Delsie Gayle on a Ryanair flight from Barcelona to London Stansted.
At one point he is heard saying: "Don't talk to me in a foreign language, you stupid, ugly cow." He then threatened her: "If you don't go to another seat, I'll put you in another seat."
Appearing on ITV's Good Morning Britain on Friday, he apologised and said he "lost [his] temper a bit".
"I'm not a racist person by any means and it's just a fit of temper at the time, I think," he said.
"I apologise for all the distress you've had there and since."
Gayle, aged 77, is of the Windrush generation of postwar immigrants to the UK. She had been on holiday to help cope with the death of her husband, her daughter said.
Essex police are investigating the incident.