SEOUL (Reuters) - The former Korean Air Lines executive jailed for her outburst over in-flight service, known as the "nut rage" case, asked for leniency during an appeal hearing on Wednesday as she sought to reduce her one-year prison term.
Heather Cho, the daughter of the airline's chairman, was sentenced in February over the Dec. 5 incident at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, where she forced a Korean Air flight crew chief off the plane because she was unhappy about the way she was served macadamia nuts.
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