From Popular Mechanics - great photos:
REPLACING THE WORLD'S LARGEST JET ENGINE AT 40-BELOW
In early February, the temperature meanders between -22 to -40 degrees. Add in 28-mph winds and it feels like a bone-shattering -76 degrees. Trees don't grow here; the summers are too short. Tarps rip like wax paper in freezing winds. One place stands out among the shrub-covered foothills, a lone 8,600-foot runway accompanied by one terminal with only two taxi gates.
This is Iqaluit Airport, and it's one of hell of a location for replacing a 18,000-pound jet engine.
Flight from Zürich, Switzerland to Los Angeles and one of two engines failed. The plane can fly on just one engine but procedures dictate an emergency landing. The remaining engine could fail too and that would make for a bad flight.
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