From the UK series "What Happened?", the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner runs aground off Marthas Vineyard. This sequence illustrates the low pressure area surrounding large water craft that allowed this to occur.

For Darlow Smithson of the UK, we produced a series of accident reconstruction visualizations for the series "What Happened?". This sequence illustrated a Jeep rollover event in the Midwest US.

An animated sequence illustrating what happened when the tug Mauvilla and it's barges ran off course hitting a railroad bridge, leading to the derailement of an Amtrak passenger train into a tributary of the Mobile River.

From the series "What Happened?" an accident reconstruction visualization involving a single vehicle accident, and loss of control.

The Mercedes carrying Princess Diana and Dody Faed crashes in the Alma Tunnel in Paris, France. This sequence of images is from one of many reconstruction visualizations we produced of the accident.

When an accident occurs, it’s serious business trying to figure out what happened and why. Computer animation technology incorporating data obtained from engineering experts surveying accident scenes are one of the most powerful tools experts can have in examining accidents and trying to determine what may have happened. Flying Foto Factory, Inc. has developed a unique expertise in this area and been called on numerous times to collaborate in these kinds of situations. The most high profile of which was the accident involving Princess Diana in the Alma Tunnel in Paris. CBS News 48 Hours, Britain’s ITV Network and the BBC all called on Flying Foto Factory to collaborate with engineers in analyzing the accident by creating a 3D computer animation of possible scenarios of what happened inside the Alma tunnel that fateful night. Flying Foto Factory’s Computer animation & expertise combined with engineering data has also helped experts in analyzing other kinds of vehicle accidents and has been used in court cases and has aired on television programs nationally and internationally. A few frames of accident reconstructions we’ve produced are represented here.