LONDON — A white British man who was filmed shouting racist abuse at a black woman in a Ryanair plane in Spain apologized in a TV interview on Friday and said that he had lost his temper, a bit, and that he was “not a racist person by any means.”

Delsie Gayle, 77, the target of the abuse, who was eventually moved to another seat by Ryanair, rejected the explanation from David Mesher, saying on the same TV show, “You must forget and forgive, but it’s going to take a long time for me to get over what he has done to me.”

The separate interviews on the British broadcaster ITV came as Ryanair addressed the controversy for the first time on Friday, issuing a statement that rejected claims that the company had ignored the clash aboard a flight to London from Barcelona.

Ryanair has come under fire for the response of its cabin crew — which asked Ms. Gayle to move to another seat nearby, where her daughter was sitting — and for its silence about the encounter in the days that followed.