Taavi Rõivas was removed from the flight to Japan. Estonian Foreign Ministry did not comment on the reasons why the politician was kicked off the plane.
In 2018, an airline employee hijacked a plane from the airport in the American city of Seattle. In 2020, a resident of Dubna, Moscow region, was detained in Simferopol for drunken disorder on board an airplane. The former Estonian Prime Minister of Estonia was drunk when he was thrown off the flight at Helsinki Airport.