File photo of Cho Hyun-ah (C), also known as Heather Cho, daughter of chairman of Korean Air Lines, Cho Yang-ho, is surrounded by media as she leaves for a detention facility after a court ordered her to be detained, at the Seoul Western District Prosecutor's office December 30, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
SEOUL (Reuters) - Former Korean Air Lines executive Heather Cho walked free after nearly five months in prison on Friday after an appeals court suspended the sentence she was given for her outburst over the way she had been served macadamia nuts.
Cho, the daughter of the airline's chairman, was sentenced in February to one year in prison over the Dec. 5 incident at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, where she forced a plane to return to its gate in order to expel the flight's crew chief.
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