News of how the fired IAC public relations director Justine Sacco learned of her new-found celebrity has come to light.

On Friday, before boarding a plane to South Africa, Sacco tweeted the following:

While she was in the air over the continent whose health crisis she had mocked, news of her tweet spread around the Internet. As #HasJustineLandedYet trended on Twitter, one user of the service, Zac_R, decided to meet her flight as it landed.

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According to the Atlantic Wire, he snapped this photograph of her as she exited the plane:

Yup. @JustineSacco HAS in fact landed at Cape Town international. She's decided to wear sunnies as a disguise. pic.twitter.com/2I3WZQCIci — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

He also spoke to her father:

Justine's dad isnt (outwardly) racist. He stopped to have a chat with me. "she better know she'll be paying for this!" #HasJustineLandedYet — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

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Just had a chat to @JustineSacco's father. He's South African. He didn't want to raise her in South Africa because of racism. — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

Justine's dad is apologeti & basically in tears."I decided to raise her in the US. SA was too racist". Oh, the irony! #HasJustineLandedYet — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

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Her father, according to Zac_R, didn’t approve of her tweet:

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"I'm so incredibly ashamed of her. She's a fucking idiot" – Justine's dad to me. #HasJustineLandedYet — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

When Zac_R attempted to take another photograph of Sacco, her younger brother attempted to stop him:

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When I snapped a pic of Justine her little bro (15?) in a thick American accent "HEY! WTF are you doing?!" #HasJustineLandedYet — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

Again, her father proved to be the bigger man:

Her dad stepped in, shook him by the arm & said "YOU should be apologizing to HIM! What she did was unforgivable!" #HasJustineLandedYet — Zac (@Zac_R) December 21, 2013

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IAC announced that it had fired Sacco on Saturday. This morning, she issued an apology to ABC News.

“Words cannot express how sorry I am, and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of South Africa, who I have offended due to a needless and careless tweet,” Sacco said. “There is an AIDS crisis taking place in this country, that we read about in America, but do not live with or face on a continuous basis. Unfortunately, it is terribly easy to be cavalier about an epidemic that one has never witnessed firsthand.

“For being insensitive to this crisis — which does not discriminate by race, gender or sexual orientation, but which terrifies us all uniformly — and to the millions of people living with the virus, I am ashamed.

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“This is my father’s country, and I was born here. I cherish my ties to South Africa and my frequent visits, but I am in anguish knowing that my remarks have caused pain to so many people here; my family, friends and fellow South Africans. I am very sorry for the pain I caused.”

[Image of Sacco arriving at the airport used with permission via Twitter]