Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Strikes Delta Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Several people have been injured when a Delta Airlines flight traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced rough air on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Emergency medical services stated they treated five individuals, and transferred three to a medical facility with minor injuries that such as back pain and head pain. Those affected ranged from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the most recent case of planes being hit by turbulence, with researchers indicating that global warming is a key driver.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the official added, adding that the plane landed "safely" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Emergency responders indicated they were alerted just a mere three minutes ahead of the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

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

In the previous year, 25 people sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, encountered "considerable" rough air just 120 minutes into the transoceanic journey, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines flight endured a harrowing short but intense bout of severe turbulence. An individual lost their life and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is not uncommon while flying, and while cases of rough conditions seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are an estimated 5,000 incidents of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million journeys that now take off globally.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft going through rough air masses apply greater than a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As climate change shifts atmospheric conditions, experts warn that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.