A Number of Injured as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Flight into Sydney, Australia

Several people have been injured when a Delta jet originating in LA to Sydney experienced rough air Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson informed. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they assessed five patients, and transported a trio to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that included back pain and head pain. The patients' ages were between their thirties and seventies.

This marks the newest example of aircraft encountering turbulence, with researchers saying that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the representative said, stating that the plane touched down "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on Friday.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just three minutes ahead of the plane landed, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why in-flight bumpiness is growing increasingly prevalent - and more severe.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a harrowing short but intense of severe turbulence. An individual died and numerous people sustained injuries, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is a common occurrence during flights, and while occurrences of strong or severe turbulence seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are an estimated five thousand cases of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a total of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur globally.

Intense turbulence is described as when the up and down movements of a plane experiencing unstable air exert greater than a significant G-force on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As climate change shifts the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are expected to boost the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.