# Incident 20250831018559I: Piper PA-28-140, Palm Coast, FL, August 31, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 31, 2025, 12:10 local time
- Place: Palm Coast, FL
- Airport: Flagler Exec
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.4652° N, 81.2076° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FLAGLER EXEC (FIN), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.4652&lon=-81.2076&mi=10
- Aircraft: N56694, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N56694) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-28-140
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 186 total, 32 in this make and model, 32 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250831018559I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT'S STATEMENT:

ON APPROACH TO RUNWAY 29 AT KFIN STANDARD CROSSWIND TECHNIQUE WAS APPLIED AND TOUCHDOWN ON MAIN WHEELS WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN A SMOOTH FASHION ON TO SLIGHTLY LEFT OF CENTERLINE WITHOUT ANY DISCERNIBLE SIDELOADING.  BEFORE NOSE WHEEL MADE CONTACT, A VERY STRONG GUST OF WIND FORCED THE AIRCRAFT TO VEER HARD TO RIGHT, ATTEMPT TO RECENTER AIRCRAFT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, BUT THE AIRCRAFT HAD SIGNIFICANTLY SLOWED SO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SAFER TO COME TO STOP IN GRASS THEN APPLY FULL POWER FOR GO AROUND.  THE AREA OF GRASS WAS VERIFIED CLEAR OF OBSTACLES AND TRANSITION TO GRASS WAS SMOOTH WHERE THE AIRCRAFT SAFELY STOPPED. OF NOTE, INITIALLY WHEN CHECKING ATIS, ~7 KNOT WIND WAS REPORTED AND THEN AFTER LANDING HIGH VELOCITY GUSTS WERE REPORTED.   NO INJURIES. NO DAMAGE TO AIRPORT. NO DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT SUSPECTED, BUT PLAN OF ACTION TO HAVE AIRCRAFT INSPECTED BY A&P BEFORE RETURN TO SERVICE. SCHEDULED TO REVIEW CROSSWIND LANDINGS WITH CFI. NASA REPORT FILED.

## Other reports on N56694 (4)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20090124002639I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090124002639I), Jan 24, 2009: Piper PA28140 (N56694), Iola, KS, Minor damage. (-23) While practicing soft field landings the aircraft veered to the right after touchdown and after rotating approximately 150 degrees to the right left the…
- [Accident 19810503021569A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19810503021569A), May 3, 1981: Piper PA28140 (N56694), Northampton, MA, Substantial damage. Student pilot lost directional control and crashed during landing.
- [Incident 19790909048799I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790909048799I), Sep 9, 1979: Piper PA28140 (N56694), Glen Falls, NY, Minor damage. Student pilot failed to maintain adequate airspeed during landing, stalled, and landed hard.
- [Accident 19780920031202A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19780920031202A), Sep 20, 1978: Piper PA28140 (N56694), Northampton, MA, Substantial damage. Broke glide ovr rwy numbers. Ctctd otr acft below this one.N9011C tantial dmg.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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