Former Korean Air executive Heather Cho is facing a second lawsuit stemming from the notorious ‘nut rage’ incident when she verbally abused crew members and forced a plane back to the gate at New York JFK airport.
Chief flight attendant Park Chang-jin has filed a lawsuit in New York for compensation for bodily and mental harm, the Korean Times reported.
Park was ordered off the plane by an enraged Cho after another crew member served macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate.
That crew member, flight attendant Kim Do-hee, filed the first lawsuit in March.
No figure was put on the latest damages claim but the report says it could reach 50 million won (about $42,000).
Park has been on sick leave for more than six months since the incident.
Cho’s legal team says both lawsuits were filed in the US only to take advantage of the addition of punitive damages, something that the South Korea legal system does not recognise.
