SAA flight prevented from leaving Zimbabwe

[TheChamp]

Apparently both planes Air Zim & SAA did not have the necessary paperwork on board the aircraft - Foreign Operators Permit. According to News24 "Reports indicate, although the FOP is mandatory, “most airlines within the region operate without one, in some form of reciprocal understanding” .

It's not clear why the SA Civil Aviation Authority had not been checking / enforcing this before, and then on Friday insisted on the permit and grounded the Zimbabwean plane. The Zimbabweans retaliated as the SAA plane apparently also did not have the permit.

That sounds like a better example of tit for tat compared to the the Grace Mugabe one.

 

[TheChamp]

And your reasonable answer is as in most cases Incompetence.

Whose incompetence in this case?