T-Tail Arrow Lands Gear-Up on NC Highway

A Piper PA-28-RT201 landed gear-up on a remote stretch of North Carolina Highway and came to rest crosswise in the travel lanes. No one, thank goodness, was injured in the forced landing, and the Arrow looks to be in surprisingly good shape, to boot. Great job, pilot! The PA-28-201T is a late-70s development of the uber popular Piper Arrow. It added a single-horsepower, a T-tail (popular at the time with marketing types) and turbocharging---a previous model had the same configuration but with a standard empennage. No word yet on the cause of the crash, but the Feds are investigating.