In this photo taken with a mobile phone, South Korean fire fighters examine the wreckage of a crashed helicopter carrying the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, in Gapyeong, South Korea, Saturday, July 19, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Yonhap
SEOUL, South Korea - The founder of the Unification Church was released from a South Korean hospital Sunday, a day after he and 15 others were injured when their helicopter crashed on a mountain near Seoul.
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 88, was injured slightly when the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter crashed during an emergency landing and burst into flames in Gapyeong, about 60 kilometres northeast of the capital.
Also injured were Moon's wife and other members of his family, who remain hospitalized.
A South Korean transport ministry official says investigators have recovered a cockpit recording device to help determine the cause of the crash.
The official says a group of aviation experts from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board are scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Monday for a joint investigation.
Moon founded the Seoul-based Unification Church in the 1950s, and it owns hundreds of companies around the world, including the United Press International news agency and the Washington Times newspaper.
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