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Recently, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto thought he was having a private conversation with American leader Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

However, a hot-mic incident revealed Prabowo requesting Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Eric, both of whom serve as executives at the Trump organization.

It represented only one in a string of gaffes committed by world leaders thinking they're off the record.

Here are five other memorable blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were overheard talking about organ replacement as a approach for extending lifespan.

"Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The more you extend your life, the younger you become, and it's possible to even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was heard saying.

Xi, who was off camera, answered in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in this century humans may live to 150 years old."

Dialogue heard between China's leader Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Sea Rising at Your Door'

Former Australian border protection chief Peter Dutton faced criticism in 2015 when he made light about the situation of people in the Pacific experiencing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was conversing with former PM Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from climate change talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

Noting that a migration discussion was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "There was a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

Dutton commented: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have water lapping at your door."

These remarks provoked anger from Pacific Islands and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to issue an apology.

Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Bigoted Woman'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned him on immigration and the economy.

Remaining connected to a Sky news microphone when he entered the car, Brown was heard saying: "That was a disaster – they should never have put me with that individual. Who thought of that? Ridiculous."

When questioned about she had said, he replied: "All topics, she was just a bigoted woman."

The scandal dominated headlines for weeks and Brown went on to lose the political race.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in conversation at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a active recording device.

Sarkozy stated: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He deceives."

Per a account from a French interpreter cited by Reuters, Obama responded: "You've had enough but I have to deal with him frequently than you."

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage recording incident from former White House hopeful George W. Bush happened as he made a disparaging remark about a journalist from The New York Times.

The Republican presidential nominee was unaware that a recording device was active when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and said, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney answered: "Absolutely, he is, definitely."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000