Korean Air Executive Gets a
Year in Jail in Nut Rage Case
(Bloomberg) -- Heather Cho, the daughter of Korean Air Lines Co. Chairman Cho Yang Ho, was sentenced to one year in prison after she was found guilty of usurping a pilot’s authority when she ordered a crew member to deplane during a row over in-flight service.
Her actions were “extremely dangerous and lacking in common sense,” Judge Oh Sung Woo said Thursday in a ruling at Seoul Western District Court. The crew member’s dignity “collapsed under money and hierarchy” after Cho treated him “like a slave,” he said.
