- Date
- September 5, 2025, 11:40 local (15:40 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Pleasant, SC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N382RBLarocca Roch B Eracer MK II
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 15, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250905015509A
- Case key
- 200973
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The failure of the nose gear actuator bolt during the landing roll, which resulted in the collapse of the nose landing gear and subsequent runway excursion.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot experimental amateur-built airplane reported that the approach and landing were normal with no anomalies observed. During the landing roll, the airplane’s retractable nose landing gear collapsed, and the airplane veered off the runway before it impacted uneven terrain. The airplane’s right wing was substantially damaged during the accident sequence. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the nose landing gear actuator bolt had failed, which likely resulted in the collapse of the nose gear assembly during the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N382RB
- Reported as
- Larocca Roch B Eracer MK II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 92-0115
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 490
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 27, 2025 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- FFC · Peachtree City, GA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- LRO · Mt Pleasant Rgnl-Faison Fld, runway 17/35, 3,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 18,699 total · 490 in this make and model · 18,699 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KLRO
- METAR
- KLRO 051535Z AUTO 00000KT 9SM CLR 30/20 A3004 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 15, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.8 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.