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An airline exec turned a jet around over nuts in a bag

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 16, 2026
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nut rage incident — Carl Davies, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (via Wikipedia)

On December 5, 2014, Korean Air Flight 086 was taxiing toward takeoff at JFK when it turned around and rolled back to the gate. The reason: Heather Cho, a company vice president and the daughter of its CEO, had been handed her first-class macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate. Fur…

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