3/23/98; AA ORD:SWF (aka, vomit comet)

17 pax and 1 flight attendant have to use
their sick sacks.

The crosswind is gusting right at the
crosswind landing limit for the md80.
Three approaches are aborted. We divert
to IAD for fuel and spend 2.5 hours there
waiting for the winds at SWF to either die
or shift to something more reasonable.

-doug