Multiple Affected as Rough Air Strikes Delta Aircraft Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt following a Delta Airlines flight traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney encountered rough air this past Friday.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

Emergency medical services said they treated five patients, and took three of them to hospital with minor injuries that comprised back pain and head pain. Those affected spanned from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the most recent case of planes encountering turbulence, with aviation specialists indicating that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

On board were 245 people and 15 crew members on the Airbus A350, the representative said, stating that the plane landed "safely" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is growing more common - and often stronger.

During the past year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "considerable" turbulence just two hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a terrifying five seconds period of extreme instability. A traveler died and many were hurt, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and were slammed back.

In-flight turbulence is a common occurrence while flying, and while occurrences of strong or severe turbulence appear to be increasing, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a total of over 35 million journeys that now take off globally.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft experiencing disturbed air exert greater than a significant G-force on your body - sufficient force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As global warming shifts weather patterns, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become bumpier: temperature changes and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are projected to heighten the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.