Pilot DAR
For the record, the Lance II involved in this incident was a 'T' configuration.
Let's just say they require careful handling at low airspeeds - others have explained this in detail earlier in the thread.
The original Lance was a low tail config and in my (limited) experience of flying one, a very nice aircraft to handle (then again, I learned on PA28s and had PA32 fixed gear experience.)
It's interesting to read your comments about PA28s, for it seems to me that there are so many different versions with varying power, wing types, gear, tails, that it is difficult to generalise other than to say they are at the docile end of the handling range
(but will still bite the unwary and thanks for making a good point about that.)
Your íce runway experience sounds like a -140 to me, can you remember?