A Number of Injured as Rough Air Hits A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney

Several people were hurt when a Delta jet from LA to Sydney, Australia experienced significant turbulence on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official told. Four flight attendants were injured.

Emergency medical services stated they assessed a total of five people, and transferred a trio to the hospital with relatively minor issues that included pain in the back and migraines. Those affected spanned from their thirties and seventies.

It is the most recent case of aircraft being hit by turbulence, with researchers pointing out that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and 15 crew members on the aircraft, the Delta spokesperson said, stating that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Emergency responders said they received a call just a mere three minutes ahead of the plane touched down, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is getting more frequent - and more severe.

During the past year, 25 people were hurt when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "severe" turbulence just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines flight went through a frightening five seconds bout of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is not uncommon during flights, and while instances of strong or severe turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are approximately thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of over 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur around the world.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a plane passing through disturbed air exert more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become less smooth: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the jet stream level are expected to heighten the frequency and intensity of significant turbulence.