Toomey LONG EZ N82MT

Summary

On 19 November 2025 at about 21:30 local time, a Toomey LONG EZ registered N82MT was involved in an accident near Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause has been published yet; this accident is still under investigation.

Date

19 November 2025 at 21:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Beaufort, South Carolina, United States

Nearest airport

Beaufort Exec (KARW)

Coordinates

32.5279, -80.5534

Aircraft

Toomey LONG EZ

Registration

N82MT

Category

Airplane

Year built

2017

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Chesapeak → Zephyrhills

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA26LA052

Nobody was injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. The investigation is still open; a final report usually follows one to two years after the accident.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On November 19, 2025, about 1630 eastern standard time, an experimental, amateur-built Long EZ, N82MT, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Beaufort, South Carolina. The private pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The airplane departed the Chesapeake Regional Airport (CPK), Chesapeake, Virginia, at 1345, with an intended destination of Zephyrhills Municipal Airport (ZPH), Zephyrhills, Florida. Preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data obtained from the FAA showed that the airplane climbed to an altitude of 5,500 ft mean sea level (msl) after takeoff. Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes into the flight, the airplane began a slow descent to 1,500 ft msl and at 1545, the airplane’s altitude fluctuated between 1,300 and 475 ft msl. The pilot reported that at approximately 1620, at an altitude of 1,500 ft above ground level (agl), the airplane’s engine began to run “extremely rough.” The pilot switched fuel tanks, applied carburetor heat, enriched the mixture, then leaned the mixture, turned on and off the auxiliary fuel pump, advanced and retarded the throttle, but the engine “ran progressively worse.” When the airplane was at approximately 500 ft agl, the engine lost all power, and the pilot performed a forced landing in a coastal tributary stream. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings. The wreckage was retained for further examination.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.