I was completly eqipped and scavenging the NWAF.
When I got into the control tower I noticed a weird pile of loot in the middle of the stairs. There was a firefighter axe and two mosins (all 3 items in one loot spot). I opened my inventory and dragged the axe into my weapon slot (where I had a "normal" axe).
The game froze. Not the whole computer, only DayZ. The game didn't react at all and after 2 minutes of waiting I killed the DayZ process via taskmanager.
Upon restarting DayZ I had a black screen ("Please wait") and after a pretty long wait (3 minutes?) I was in Pustoshka with a new character