"Ladies and gentleman, this is your Captain speaking.We have a situation." And with those words, the saga of my aborted flight from New York to Dallas began. The captain told us we had an "equipment problem" that required we make an emergency landing at Washington Dulles, the nearest airport. But, he continued, the plane was too heavy to land safely; we had to shed fuel. So we would fly around in a circle for 45 minutes and land as soon as we were light enough. I was sitting at the front of the