On 9th March 1941 the trainee pilot of this 54 O.T.U. aircraft had been given forty five minutes instructional flying in a dual controlled Blenheim. Twenty five minutes later he was instructed to undertake his first solo in Blenheim K7114 and was to carry out a basic training flight of a series of local circuits and landings. He had completed the first of these landings and left to circle to do a second but it was while he was making a wide circuit of the airfield and flying at around 600 feet the port wing dropped and the aircraft side-slipped into the ground. It was initially though that the port engine may have cut out in the airfield circuit which caused the wing to drop. Both engines were sent away for examination, nothing was found to be wrong with the starboard engine but the port engine was found to have been excessively oily and this may have caused the engine to cut out. The pilot's career is being researched, although a trainee on the Blanheim type his rank suggests that he was probably a full-fledged airman. He may have been training on night-fighters.Pilot - S/Ldr Charles Richard John Pink RAF