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.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 Ondusfjellet, Trollheimen

10./JG5 Weisse 5+ WNr.14620 Uffz.Heinz Schmitz (KIA) 16.01 1943

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