According to reports, when served the nuts, a furious Cho said the flight attendant had not followed protocol for serving in first class and screamed at him to bring out the company's in-flight service manual so he could read the proper nut-handling guidelines. When Parf failed to find it, Cho lost her cool and ordered him off the flight. Continue...
The flight attendant was forced to kneel in front of the screaming woman and beg for forgiveness. But Cho was having none of it and fired the man immediately. She then demanded the pilot turn the plane around and remove the man from it, creating a 20 minutes delay for the 250 people on-board.
When the incident was made public, people were outraged and demanded for Cho's arrest. Korean Air responded to the backlash by forcing Cho to resign her job as vice-president.
Criminal charges were later brought against her. She was arrested on Dec. 30th 2014 and charged for disrupting the flight schedule, assaulting two flight attendants, coercing them and disturbing their work. She's been in custody since then.
She faced a judge yesterday and was sentenced to one year in prison after the district court in Seoul ruled that she had illegally altered the course of the plane, judging that an aircraft was 'in flight' from the moment it begins to move.
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