Multiple Injured as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals have been injured after a Delta Airlines aircraft from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia was hit by turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a representative for the carrier told. Several cabin crew members were injured.

Local paramedics said they assessed five patients, and transported a trio to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included spinal discomfort and head pain. Those affected were between their 30s up to the 70s.

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

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the representative noted, stating that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service said they got a call just three minutes ahead of the plane touched down, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is growing more frequent - and potentially more dangerous.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "significant" atmospheric disturbance just 120 minutes into the lengthy trip, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight went through a frightening five seconds of severe turbulence. A traveler lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts were thrown from their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine during flights, and while cases of strong or severe turbulence seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance annually, out of a overall number of more than 35 million journeys that are conducted around the world.

Severe turbulence is defined as when the up and down movements of a plane going through rough air masses exert greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As a changing climate shifts the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become less smooth: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the higher altitudes are expected to increase the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.