Heather Cho, the daughter of Korean Air Lines Co. Chairman Cho Yang Ho, has been released by a South Korean appeals court Friday. Cho received a one-year jail term in February after violating aviation laws at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in Dec. 5, 2014.

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Cho, the former executive vice president of Korean Air, disrupted a flight last year when she ordered the pilot of the departing plane she was in to turn around in order for the head of the cabin crew to leave the plane. The flight attendant failed to serve Cho macadamia nuts, causing her to go irate.

The incident has since been dubbed the "nut rage" incident and Cho called the "nut rage" executive.

Despite Cho's resignation from her position at Korean Air, as well as her and her father's apologies to the general public for her daughter's behavior, Cho has been put in custody since Dec. 30, reported Bloomberg Business.

In the high court's ruling Friday, Cho's 10-month sentence was suspended for two years. According to a court official, the lower court's guilty ruling on Cho was rejected by the high court.

"She has shown remorse for the wrongdoing she committed. She must have learned a lesson from it," said Kim Sang-whan, Seoul's High Court Judge. "We judge she should have a chance to start her life anew."

The "nut rage" incident, which has caused further public anger toward the South Korea's rich families, has been kept a close eye on by the media as well as the Korean public, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The December incident involving the Korean Air executive is the latest in incidents portraying the misbehavior of South Korea's chaebol families, or families who run the country's largest businesses.

Cho may have been freed from jail, but she isn't completely free from the case yet. In New York, the flight attendant involved in the "nut rage" incident has already filed a civil suit against Cho for damages the incident has caused to her reputation, career and emotional health. The stewardess is looking for unspecified damages, according to Reuters.

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