diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/qa/rest/generative/GenerativeRestTest.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/qa/rest/generative/GenerativeRestTest.java
index 41b8658302bd7..2289878432b55 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/qa/rest/generative/GenerativeRestTest.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/qa/rest/generative/GenerativeRestTest.java
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ public abstract class GenerativeRestTest extends ESRestTestCase {
         // Awaiting fixes for query failure
         "Unknown column \\[<all-fields-projected>\\]", // https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/121741,
         "Plan \\[ProjectExec\\[\\[<no-fields>.* optimized incorrectly due to missing references", // https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/125866
-        "optimized incorrectly due to missing references", // https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/116781
         "The incoming YAML document exceeds the limit:", // still to investigate, but it seems to be specific to the test framework
         "Data too large", // Circuit breaker exceptions eg. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/130072