Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Hits Delta Plane into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew sustained injuries following a Delta Airlines flight originating in LA to Sydney, Australia encountered rough air on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. Four flight attendants were injured.

Local paramedics reported they assessed a total of five people, and transported three of them to the hospital with relatively minor issues that such as back pain and headaches. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

It is the most recent case of commercial jets encountering severe turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that global warming is a major factor.

There were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the representative added, adding that the plane touched down "safely" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday morning.

Paramedics reported they got a call just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is becoming more common - and more severe.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight experienced a harrowing brief five-second period of extreme instability. A traveler passed away and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and fell back down.

In-flight turbulence is fairly routine while flying, and while instances of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are still very rare.

Research indicates that there are an estimated 5,000 incidents of severe or worse turbulence annually, out of a sum of more than 35 million journeys that are conducted worldwide.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is described as when the vertical motions of a plane going through rough air masses exert in excess of a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As a changing climate modifies the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that air travel could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are expected to increase the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.