Multiple Hurt as In-Flight Disturbance Strikes A Delta Airlines Plane Landing at Sydney

Several people were hurt after a Delta jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced significant turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members were injured.

Emergency medical services reported they evaluated five individuals, and transferred three of them to the hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised back pain and headaches. Those affected were between their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the most recent case of planes experiencing turbulence, with aviation specialists indicating that global warming is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the official said, clarifying that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Paramedics said they received a call just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were ready and waiting at the airport.

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

During the past year, 25 people were injured when a separate Delta aircraft, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "significant" rough air just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a frightening five seconds period of extreme instability. An individual died and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is not uncommon on aircraft journeys, and while instances of rough conditions seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are around thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence annually, out of a total of in excess of 35 million journeys that now take off around the world.

Intense turbulence is defined as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft experiencing unstable air exert greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - sufficient force to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, experts warn that air travel could become bumpier: warming trends and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are likely to boost the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.