The crew landed the plane about 400 miles away at Iqaluit, on Baffin Island, 1,500 miles north of Montreal off the coast of Canada.
Greenland officials have said the virus was brought to Greenland by foxes, ravens and possibly polar bears across the frozen Baffin Bay from the Canadian Arctic, where distemper was reported in October.
Points in between include Greenland, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador and Newfoundland.