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> Plane going nose down, push yoke forward at 500ft?

Is this in anyway akin to drivers counter-intuitively steering into a skid in order to regain traction?

You are correct in it being counter-intuitive and seemingly opposing the desired outcome. You need to recognize the situation fast and know precisely what you are doing. Unenviable position to be in at 500ft AGL.

In this case you are either going into a commanded descent into terrain or the broken computer will do it for you, at that altitude there aren't many chances of getting out of that situation in one piece.

More like how you have to steer a bike slightly in the opposite direction, before spinning the wheel towards the way you want to go.

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