Multiple Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Hits A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney

Several people have been injured following a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced rough air this past Friday.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier told. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Local paramedics stated they evaluated five individuals, and transferred three of them to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included back pain and headaches. The injured spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the latest incident of planes being hit by turbulence, with researchers saying that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson noted, adding that the plane landed "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday morning.

Emergency responders indicated they were alerted just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is getting more frequent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals were hurt when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "severe" turbulence just two hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, those on board on a certain international flight experienced a frightening short but intense period of extreme instability. One passenger died and numerous people sustained injuries, as unbelted passengers were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is not uncommon while flying, and while instances of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are still very rare.

Estimates show that there are approximately thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance annually, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million journeys that currently occur around the world.

Intense turbulence is described as when the up and down movements of a jet going through rough air masses generate more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As global warming shifts weather patterns, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are projected to heighten the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.