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A Korean Air executive who delayed an aircraft because she was angry with the way she had been served nuts by an air steward has resigned.
Heather Cho, a vice-president of the carrier and daughter of its chairman, had demanded the crew member be removed from a flight last Friday for failing to serve the nuts on a plate.
The Incheon-bound flight had to taxi back to the terminal in New York. The airline has apologised, but said she had had the support of the pilot.
The flight eventually arrived in South Korea 11 minutes behind schedule.
Local media reports said that a junior attendant had offered Cho macadamia nuts in a bag, instead of serving the nuts on a plate.
Cho then questioned the chief flight attendant over in-flight service standards and ordered him off the plane.