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CORRECTION: Due to an editing error an earlier version of this article stated the stranded passengers went on a tour of Iqaluit. A tour was planned, but not conducted. The article has been updated to reflect that change.

A Los Angeles-bound flight — the city was a balmy 21 degrees — suddenly found itself diverted instead Wednesday to Iqaluit — a frigid, and somewhat ironic, minus 21.

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The Boeing 777, which can hold up to 295 passengers, landed smoothly, but then had difficulty turning around. There were no injuries.

The Swiss International Air Lines flight from Zurich should have flown over the southern tip of Greenland, Hudson’s Bay, Ontario and Manitoba on its way to the western United States. Instead, it was forced to make an emergency landing in Nunavut’s capital due to what the airline called a “technical irregularity.”

“The real issue was they only had one engine, but despite that it was a smooth landing,” said Iqaluit airport director John Hawkins.

“Would you believe me if I told you the plane I was in lost an engine and now I’m stuck in the middle of the North Pole?,” Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Leroy Sanchez said in a tweet.

Initially Sanchez and the other jet-setting passengers suddenly stranded in the high Arctic in February were going to get a tour of the city.

“Everyone’s fine and they are being detained. They will be given a tour of the community, fed, and a replacement airplane is being sent to pick them up so they will not be staying overnight,” Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern told the National Post.