This was an American made aircraft with American conceived automatics flying into an American airport following an American designed stepped procedure. The approach was being flown the American way (visually) under the direction of an American air traffic controller. Most likely the crew were trained by an American FTO to SOPs and an AFM influenced by American carriers.
Of course (as some posts would have) the only factor to be considered in this crash is Asian deference culture
To which point, in what way was a failure evident of:
the aircraft,
the systems,
the approach procedure,
ATC
?
Oh it was an Asian crew*... So your rhetoric is called as B/S.
as per Callsign Kilo's post :
The airline has informed the media that the LTC in the right hand seat was new to the position; it was his first flight as a LTC. The guy in the left had 43 hours on type.
and to emphasise the point about various cultures by another poster (cultural variations do exist, there's been quite few studies on the subject matter):
I hope the guy in the right was not sitting hoping they would make it without having to say something to his senior but junior cpt
*Note: no blame apportioned here, *that* will be subject to the *results* of the
investigation.