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Hero baggage handler at 9/11 event

Updated on 09 September 2007

Source PA News

Hero baggage handler John Smeaton has travelled to the US, where he will take part in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The airport worker, who found worldwide fame after his courage during the terror attack on Glasgow Airport, has been invited to this year's commemoration service at the World Trade Centre in New York.

The 31-year-old, from Renfrewshire, jetted off from Heathrow airport in London.

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