The Stanford football team did not make its cross-country flight to South Carolina on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s conference matchup at Clemson and instead is scheduled to fly out on Friday morning in part because of Hurricane Helene, a team spokesperson confirmed to SFGATE.
According to flight tracking website FlightAware , Stanford was originally scheduled to fly out of San Jose on Thursday afternoon and land at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) in Greer, South Carolina, just after midnight on Friday. But that flight was eventually canceled after Stanford sat on the tarmac for hours ( FlightAware reports the taxi time at 3 hours, 28 minutes, on Thursday).
SFGATE reached out to Stanford football spokesperson Brian Brownfield, who provided this statement via text: “After practicing on campus Thursday morning, [the] team was scheduled to fly out later in the afternoon. After departure was delayed, the team’s charter flight was not cleared to land prior to curfew due to inclement weather.”…