Ron White gave an interview to the Atlanta Constitution-Journal while staying at the Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta. He sat down with the AC-J’s Christian Boone to clear the air (Cough! Cough!) after his arrest in Vero over the weekend.
White claims the bust was set in motion by disgruntled ex-employees, namely two pilots he canned in May.
But until now he’s been silent about his dispute with two former employees who piloted his private jet, the “Tater Air,” for more than a year. The pilots have alleged that on May 11, as they flew over New York, an intoxicated White burst into the cockpit and threatened to fight them and crash the plane.
White denied the pilots’ account.
“Do I look like somebody who wants to die?” he said. “My life is in my prime. I’ve never had more fun in my life than I’m having now.”
That’s a shot of the screen aboard White’s plane that tells you where the Raytheon Hawker 400 is in relation to the mortals on the ground. It’s from Kid Dave Miller’s first-person account of an excursion aboard Tater Air that ran in this magazine back in February 2006.