You are correct to state that the crew of a Swazi registered aircraft needed to have their licences validated in terms of ICAO procedures..
The RSA CAA is oblidged to accept these IF THE ICAO PROCEDURES wrt validations and flight crew licensing were followed
In this case you had DC10-30 crew licences validated for a DC10-10 operation on the morning they flew in from Ghana (for a flight scheduled to leave later that day). Guess no time for writing Swazi airlaw as is usual with validations and no matter that they are rated on different aircraft.
Murad Ismal's license... well inflight relief authorization - on Interlink letterhead nogal. Guess that must be new for ICAO.
DC10 P1 rating without any need to pass a technical course let alone a flight test?? Now ICAO must certainly have rewritten their annexes to allow this one through.
In the end, the operation had to take place on a RSA issued FOP which requires to the CAA to certify to the NDOT that the operation is safe and at least meets RSA standards.
Would not want to have the potential liability of the Commissioner to issue such a guarantee on the basis of the above, let alone the flight an duty considerations, no clearance into Canada and expired life vests.
Guess the scorpions must have more insight to the operations of Murad "Shaiky" Ismail that led them to arrest him for his flying on the state contract
