Instancia de documento incrustado no válida proporcionada a EmbeddedDocumentField al guardar

Tengo estos modelos mongoengine declarados:

class SyncDiscrepancy(EmbeddedDocument):
    upi = StringField(primary_key=True)
    error_code = IntField(required=True)

    meta = {
        'indexes': ['upi', 'error_code']
    }
########## END SYNC


class Flight(Document):
    identifier = StringField(primary_key=True)
    env = StringField(required=True, max_length=3)
    peak = IntField(required=True)
    carrier = StringField(required=True, max_length=3)
    number = IntField(required=True)
    boardpoint = StringField(required=True)
    offpoint = StringField(required=True)
    date = DateTimeField(required=True)
    status = StringField(required=True)
    # store comments
    comments = StringField()

    last_modified = DateTimeField(required=True)

    local_discrepancies = ListField(EmbeddedDocumentField(LocalDiscrepancy))
    sync_discrepancies = ListField(EmbeddedDocumentField(SyncDiscrepancy))
    count_local = IntField(required=True)
    count_sync = IntField(required=True)

    meta = {
        'indexes': ['_id', 'env','peak', 'date'],
        'ordering': ['-date']
    }

Y pruebo un básico

>>> sy = SyncDiscrepancy(upi='axzdsa', error_code=2)
>>> fl = Flight()
>>> fl.sync_discrepancies.append(sy)
>>> fl.save()
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<debugger>", line 1, in <module>

fl.save()

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mongoengine/document.py", line 224, in save

self.validate(clean=clean)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mongoengine/base/document.py", line 323, in validate

raise ValidationError(message, errors=errors)

ValidationError: ValidationError (Flight:None) (Invalid embedded document instance provided to an EmbeddedDocumentField: ['sync_discrepancies'] Field is required: ['status', 'count_local', 'offpoint', 'identifier', 'number', 'boardpoint', 'last_modified', 'peak', 'env', 'carrier', 'date', 'count_sync'])

Ahora sé que no completé los campos obligatorios paraflight, pero incluso si lo hago, sigo recibiendo este errorInvalid embedded document instance provided to an EmbeddedDocumentField: ['sync_discrepancies']. ¿Cuál es exactamente el problema con cómo declaro elSyncDiscrepancy y guardar el vuelo?

Utilizandomongoengine==0.8.7

EDITAR Lo acorté a

class SyncDiscrepancy(EmbeddedDocument):
    error_code = IntField()

class Flight(Document):
    sync_discrepancies = ListField(EmbeddedDocumentField(SyncDiscrepancy))

y:

>>> sy = SyncDiscrepancy(error_code=2)
>>> fl = Flight()
>>> fl.sync_discrepancies.append(fl)
>>> fl.save()
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<debugger>", line 1, in <module>

fl.save()

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mongoengine/document.py", line 224, in save

self.validate(clean=clean)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mongoengine/base/document.py", line 323, in validate

raise ValidationError(message, errors=errors)

ValidationError: ValidationError (Flight:None) (Invalid embedded document instance provided to an EmbeddedDocumentField: ['sync_discrepancies'])

>>> 

No entiendo por qué me sale este error.

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