Cho Hyun-ah (C), also known as Heather Cho, daughter of chairman of Korean Air Lines, Cho Yang-ho, leaves for a detention facility after a court ordered her to be detained, at the Seoul Western District Prosecutor?s office December 30, 2014. South Korean
Cho Hyun-ah (C), also known as Heather Cho, daughter of chairman of Korean Air Lines, Cho Yang-ho, leaves for a detention facility after a court ordered her to be detained, at the Seoul Western District Prosecutor?s office December 30, 2014. South Korean prosecutors requested on Wednesday a detention warrant for a former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy about how she was served nuts in first class. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: TRANSPORT CRIME LAW BUSINESS)
Cho Hyun-ah (C), also known as Heather Cho, daughter of chairman of Korean Air Lines, Cho Yang-ho, leaves for a detention facility after a court ordered her to be detained, at the Seoul Western District Prosecutor?s office December 30, 2014. South Korean prosecutors requested on Wednesday a detention warrant for a former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy about how she was served nuts in first class. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: TRANSPORT CRIME LAW BUSINESS)

Authorities arrested and sent to jail on Tuesday Cho Hyun-Ah, the Korean Air vice president whose rage over being served macadamia nuts in a plastic bag instead of on a plate delayed the plane's departure and arrival.

The daughter of the owner of the air carrier, Cho resigned from her position when her air rage on Dec 5 on a Korean Air flight from New York to Seoul became headline and shared over social media as she berated the purser and insisted on ordering him to leave the plane even if it was already taxiing for take off.

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The once proud 40-year-old executive is now a picture of forced humility as she was seen on Tuesday, head bowed down and saying "I'm sorry" as she left the court and escorted by the prosecutors to jail.

A Seoul court granted on late Tuesday the application by the prosecutor's office of an arrest warrant filed last week over charges of breach of aviation safety law, coercion and interfering in the execution of duty.

But it is not only Cho who went to prison, since on the same day a Korean Air executive was also arrested for destroying evidence from the macadamia nut rage incidence.

The sanctions aren't limited to the air carrier's erring executives but includes the company as the Transport Ministry mulls imposing a one-month ban on its New York-Seoul route or fines of up to $2 million.