Risky Rescue Flight That Might Save Lives From Lethal Winter Blackout | Ice Pilots NWT | Wonder

When the generators in a town with thousands of people in remote North Canada break, the lives of the entire town is at risk. As a brutal winter is about to set in, without power the people will have no access to emergency services, warmth or facilities. Ace pilots are scrambled from Yellowknife and load up an old DC-4 warplane but they might not even be able to take off when there’s a problem with the vital new generators. Subscribe to WONDER to watch more documentaries: 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.