Bad weather conditions with heavy wind and snow,caused the crash.

Easy access to crashsite from Jølhaugen parking.

Photo: Erik Nordbø,via Morten Moe
photo: kjell sørensen
Understellslegg. Juni 2004
The body of H. Schmitz as he was found on Ondusfjellet in July 1943. The parachute is seen in the foreground.
Deler av cockpit-glasset er utstilt hos NØFMF sin samling i Tolga.

Me.Bf 109G-2 Ondusfjellet Trollheimen

10./JG5 Weisse 5+ Werknr.14620 16.1 1943

Uffz. Heinrich Schmitz found dead beside the plane. His parachute probably hooked up in the tail fin of the plane. Another Bf 109G-2 from same unit, made a forced landing on the ice at Jølvatnet in Rennebu, the same day (werknr.14624)