Several Hurt as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney

Several people were hurt after a Delta Airlines jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced rough air on Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson informed. Four flight attendants were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they assessed a total of five people, and transferred three of them to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages ranged from their 30s to 70s.

It is the most recent case of aircraft encountering severe turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a major factor.

There were 245 people and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, clarifying that the plane arrived "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday.

The NSW Ambulance Service reported they received a call just a mere three minutes prior to the plane landed, and ambulances were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming more common - and potentially more dangerous.

In the previous year, 25 people sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "significant" turbulence 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 endured a terrifying short but intense bout of severe turbulence. An individual died and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers were thrown from their seats and crashed back down.

Turbulence is not uncommon while flying, and while cases of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence annually, out of a total of more than 35 million journeys that are conducted worldwide.

Severe turbulence is defined as when the sudden jolts of a jet experiencing disturbed air exert in excess of a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As climate change modifies atmospheric conditions, experts warn that air travel could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of significant turbulence.