Pilot radioed alert on doomed Indonesian jet's previous flight

The pilot of a Lion Air flight from Indonesia’s Bali island 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. The chief of the airport authority for the Bali-Nusa Tenggara area said 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. Another pilot in the area who heard the radio request said: “The Lion plane requested to return back to Bali 5 minutes after take-off, but then the pilot said the problem had been resolved and he was going to go ahead to Jakarta.” <br/>