The woman at the centre of the "nut rage" incident on board a Korean Air flight earlier this month has been detained by authorities.
A South Korean court approved the arrest of Korean Air's former senior vice-president Heather Cho, 40. The court cited concerns she might destroy evidence or flee.
Cho resigned her position as senior vice-president following the December 5 incident when she demanded the removal of a crew member from a flight she was on for serving macadamia nuts in a bag, not a dish.
Cho, who is also the eldest daughter of airline Chairman Cho Yang Ho, forced the Incheon-bound flight to taxi back to the terminal to drop off the crew member.
The aircraft had already left the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport for takeoff when the incident happened. It took no more than two minutes to return to the gate to deplane the crew member, according to the airline. The flight was 11 minutes late when it arrived in Seoul.
