Several Affected as Rough Air Strikes Delta Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals sustained injuries following a Delta Airlines jet from LA to Sydney encountered rough air this past Friday.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members were injured.

Local paramedics said they treated a total of five people, and transferred a trio to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised spinal discomfort and migraines. Those affected ranged from their 30s to 70s.

It is the most recent case of aircraft being hit by severe turbulence, with experts pointing out that global warming is a significant contributor.

On board were 245 people and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson added, stating that the plane touched down "safely" at the airport at 06:48 local time on Friday morning.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just three minutes prior to the plane touched down, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is getting more frequent - and more severe.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "significant" rough air just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight endured a frightening short but intense of severe turbulence. A traveler died and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while cases of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are still very rare.

Research indicates that there are an estimated thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that now take off worldwide.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft going through unstable air apply more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As a changing climate shifts atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that flying could become more turbulent: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are expected to increase the regularity and severity of dangerous in-flight bumps.