Several Hurt as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight Landing at Sydney

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured after a Delta Airlines aircraft from LA to Sydney, Australia was hit by turbulence on Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier informed. Several cabin crew members were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they evaluated five patients, and transferred a trio to a medical facility with relatively minor issues that comprised back pain and migraines. The patients' ages were between their 30s up to the 70s.

It is the latest incident of aircraft experiencing turbulence, with experts pointing out that climate change is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the aircraft, the representative noted, adding that the plane touched down "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Emergency responders said they got a call just a mere three minutes ahead of the plane touched down, and emergency vehicles were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is growing more frequent - and often stronger.

Last year, two dozen individuals were hurt when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, experienced "significant" rough air just a couple of hours into the lengthy trip, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a terrifying brief five-second period of extreme instability. A traveler passed away and dozens were injured, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while cases of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million journeys that now take off around the world.

Severe turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a jet experiencing unstable air apply in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As a changing climate alters atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that air travel could become less smooth: warming trends and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.