A British tourist injured in a skydiving crash with an instructor in Jean has been released from the hospital, a University Medical Center spokesperson said Wednesday.

GoFundMe organizer Isabel Clacher wrote this week that she and others were “counting down the days” until Mitchell Deakin, 24, could return home to the U.K. on Wednesday.

A hospital spokesperson also said Wednesday that Deakin’s skydiving instructor, identified by a family friend as Jiron Arcos Ponce, remained in critical condition.

Clacher, who according to social media posts is Deakin’s girlfriend, wrote in an earlier GoFundMe entry that Deakin suffered injuries in the Sept. 17 crash that included a fractured pelvis, broken ribs, a perforated lung and kidney laceration.

“A long road ahead but he is on the mend,” Clache

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