Several Hurt as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft Landing at Sydney, Australia

Several people sustained injuries following a Delta flight from LA to Sydney, Australia experienced significant turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they assessed a total of five people, and took three of them to the hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages were between their thirties and seventies.

This marks the newest example of planes encountering severe turbulence, with experts pointing out that climate change is a major factor.

On board were nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the representative added, adding that the plane landed "safely and normally" at the airport at 06:48 local time on Friday morning.

Emergency responders indicated they got a call just three minutes prior to the plane touched down, and ambulances were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why in-flight bumpiness is growing more common - and often stronger.

In the previous year, 25 people were injured when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, hit "considerable" rough air just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight endured a harrowing five seconds of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and dozens were injured, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is a common occurrence during flights, and while instances of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are around 5,000 incidents of significant in-flight disturbance each year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million flights that are conducted worldwide.

Severe turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a jet passing through disturbed air apply in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As global warming shifts the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become bumpier: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the higher altitudes are projected to heighten the occurrence and strength of significant turbulence.