A passenger who told flight crew "I only have one, one is not drinking" was made to leave a Ryanair plane due to head for Edinburgh after looking the worst for wear.
Fellow travellers looked on in shock at Riga airport as the man stood up in the plane and tried to convince stewards that he was not drunk last Saturday.
Footage shows the passenger saying that he has had at most "one champagne".
But Ryanair staff clearly didn't believe him and asked the man to vacate the plane. He initially resists but then agrees to leave when a security guard turns up.
In the footage, the man can be heard saying: "I'm not drinking. Maybe one. Maybe a champagne. This isn't drinking, my English is very bad."
After being told to take his bag and go, the man started packing up his belongings, while saying to security who were ushering him out: "You don't need to rush me, I understand. I'm standing up."
One concerned passenger who filmed the ordeal suspected the man may have started drinking his duty free alcohol, reported EdinburghLive.
"Once everyone got on the plane, one of the flight stewardesses brought the man to the front of the plane and asked him how much he had had to drink. At first he pretended not to speak any English," he said.
"The stewardess then said he had to get off the flight. Then he said ‘okay I understand, I only had one cocktail and some champagne’.
"Then she said that he would still have to get off the flight. He then put his bag down and sat down in an empty seat at the front and just kept repeating ‘listen darling I not done nothing bad, I only have one, one is not drinking’.
"Then a woman came down who spoke his language and English and she translated between them. I’m not sure if it was Latvian or Russian they were speaking. He said he has family in Glasgow waiting for him that he needs to get to and the female security said but that’s the case with everyone on the plane."
The passenger added that the man was not taking no for an answer and insisted that he had done nothing wrong. Security soon showed up and once again told the man to get his bag and go, to which he eventually obliged.
The passenger continued: "The stewardess then said it was not her decision, someone else had told her this man cannot fly on this flight because if we were to find ourselves in trouble he would not be in a position to take care of himself.
"The man just kept repeating ‘listen darling I only have one, one is not drinking’. A security man then came on board and just said ‘take your bag and go!’ And the man then said ‘okay I understand’ Then he went to ask something but the man shouted ‘take your bag and go!’ So the man took his bag and got off the flight."
A Ryanair spokesperson said: "A disruptive passenger was removed from a Riga to Edinburgh flight (February 4) ahead of take-off."
