The "copy table" or "append table" fails with "Failed - Version of import running on target in (4298266)

When running copy table from a source on higher version of Oracle to a target on lower version of Oracle, copy status shows the following:

Job ID : 2
Host : server_name
Started : 09-DEC-08 20:03:49
Job Type : Copy
Status : Failed - Version of import running on target incompatible with version of export

ID Tablename Total Rows %Comp Status Status Time Total Time
------ ------------------------------------ ---------- ----- ---------- ----------- ----------
1 owner.table_name 5041752 Failed N/A 0:02

The copy log on source shows the following entries:

Tue Dec 09/20:03:52.398:: Inserting SYNC Marker Tue Dec 09/20:03:52.410:: ERROR: Oracle versions are incompatible at sync/svr/sync_svr_messager.cpp:749