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Mon 10 Oct 2009Air Corps pilot's short life was long on accomplishments, mourners told
HE WAS a military pilot before he could drive, one of the youngest-ever flight instructors in the Air Corps, a first-class honours student, a marathon man and a karate kid.
The short life and long accomplishments of Capt Derek Furniss, who was killed in an air crash last week, were remembered on Saturday afternoon with fondness and pride by all who knew him.
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