This comes back to the crux of the matter, loss of face. How do you train asian FO's to have enough balls to take over in life and death situations
Spot on Mr Wooby , this is exactly the problem.
The FO must also be punished for failing in his responsibility for passenger and aircraft safety.
If it's meant to be 51%/49% in the flight deck,
More like 90%/10% in some developing countries. If the F/O tried to forcibly take control 'the system' would have come down on top of the poor FO even if he managed to save the day and make the captain go around.
If you look back into history into some of the accidents in the 50's to 70's there would have been similar accidents where an ego maniac captain totally ignored other members of the crew . The worst one that springs to mind was the KLM 747 accident that took out another jumbo , check and training captain that was god at KLM and initiated a take off without a clearance. A lot of Indonesian cockpits are still in the 'captain is god' era.
The rumor mill here mentioned the incentive to try and land off such a stupid approach was a fuel saving bonus , go arounds burn fuel.
As Metro Man previously posted in this thread the system failed at all levels.