Freezing Temperatures Ground Airplanes Potentially Starving Hundreds | Ice Pilots NWT | Wonder

When minus 40 degree Fahrenheit weather sets in at Yellowknife, Canada, Food and mail flights are grounded. Isolated settlements in the arctic depend on the pilots to deliver food, mail and presents for Christmas. This cold snap threatens all these settlements hopes for surviving the winter.

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Buffalo Airways is an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. They mainly fly WWII-era piston powered propeller planes in minus 40 degrees and land on tiny strips of tarmac in the tundra.

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