They say you have to have a pretty thick skin to survive a career in radio, but Brad Guy proved he’s made of even sterner stuff than that. Few people can jump out of a plane at 14,000 feet and live to tell the tale of how two parachutes malfunctioned. But Brad did.
 
It was his first ever jump, and although it was in tandem with an instructor, everything that could go wrong did go wrong with both the main chute and the emergency failing to deploy properly. Yet, by some miracle, both he and the instructor survived the fall… or more accurately, the landing into the duck pond at Yering Meadows golf course in the Yarra Valley, Victoria.
 
You may recall we featured Brad in an article about a young aspiring announcer, who so much wanted the job he saw advertised on radioinfo at Star-FM that he drove to Dubbo and took to the streets to convince the locals he deserved the job. Sadly, he failed to convince management of same, so he dressed up in orange underwear to apply for a job in Orange.
 
Never one to give up, he finally landed a job as On-line Digital Content Producer for the Nova Network.

The accident has tested his resolve to the limit (photo left from Herald Sun: supplied.
 
You can read the full story in the Herald Sun.