Unless he saved his 4.2.6 SHSH he will not be able to. In order to restore a firmware that is no longer being signed like 4.2.6 you need to have the SHSH key for that firmware saved for your device in order to restore that specific firmware.
If he doesn't have his SHSH saved he will have to restore to 4.2.7 which at this point only has a tethered jailbreak which you can find a tutorial for here:
bit.ly/eDXF9J
If he has his SHSH saved for 4.2.6 he will need to load Tiny Umbrella and start the Tiny TSS server and then shift+restore a 4.2.6 firmware in iTunes.