I also recall the story of the Lightning who got disorientated whilst chasing a high level evading target and found himself in a vertical descent passing M1.3. Closed the throttle and pulled the stick back and waited. IIRC he blacked out as G increased and came to with the altimeter climbing through about 300ft, recovered and brought home a severely bent airframe.
I know the pilot, (JF). He told us that he took his head out of the radar and saw the nadir star of the AI in the middle of the display slowly rotating - indicating 90 deg nose down pitch. He closed the throttles, tried to extend airbrakes, but was over the IAS limit - then pulled as hard as he could, blacking out in the process. When he came to, he was in a climb at about 300ft with the IAS rapidly decreasing. Full reheat sorted that, then he levelled off and RTB'd rather gingerly. After landing, the engineers found remarkably little damage to the jet despite the extreme overstress and that actually helped to extend Lightning fatigue life (IIRC he was in a Mk3)! But he had an interesting pattern of g-suit lace marks up and down his legs for a few days, so he later told us!