Exclusive: Pilot radioed alert on doomed Indonesian jet's previous flight

Rescue team members carry wreckage from Lion Air's flight JT610 airplane at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The pilot of a Lion Air flight from Indonesia's Bali island on Sunday made a radio alert minutes after take-off due to technical problems, but they were overcome and he pushed on to Jakarta. The same jet crashed on another flight hours later, killing all 189 people on board.

Herson, chief of the airport authority for the Bali-Nusa Tenggara area, told Reuters that after the alert the pilot updated the control tower to say that the plane was flying normally and he would not return to the airport as requested.