Several Hurt as In-Flight Disturbance Strikes A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured when a Delta aircraft traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced rough air Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they evaluated a total of five people, and transported a trio to hospital with minor injuries that included back pain and migraines. The patients' ages were between their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the most recent case of aircraft experiencing turbulence, with experts saying that climate change is a significant contributor.

There were 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson said, clarifying that the plane arrived "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they received a call just a mere three minutes before the plane arrived, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why plane turbulence is becoming more frequent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, 25 people sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, hit "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a certain international flight went through a frightening brief five-second period of extreme instability. An individual lost their life and dozens were injured, as those without seatbelts were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while cases of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around five thousand cases of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a total of more than 35 million journeys that now take off worldwide.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a jet passing through rough air masses apply greater than a significant G-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a restraint.

As global warming shifts atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that air travel could become more turbulent: warming trends and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are expected to increase the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.