A catastrophe was only narrowly avoided at France's Nice-Côte d'Azur airport on Sunday, when two planes were close to crashing into each other on the the runway. AdvertisementThe two planes nearly collided on Sunday night, around 11.30pm at the Nice-Côte d'Azur airport in southern France. The airport of Nice told Actu France, "an investigation will determine the cause, but it appears the NouvelAir pilot made an error". Aerial view of Nice airport. After the controller was woken up, "the flight landed safely," the authority said, adding that it had opened an investigation into the "unusual situation".