A Number of Affected as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals have been injured following a Delta aircraft traveling from LA to Sydney encountered turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson stated. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

Local paramedics said they treated five patients, and took three to hospital with minor injuries that comprised back pain and migraines. Those affected spanned from their thirties and seventies.

It is the latest incident of planes being hit by turbulence, with researchers indicating that climate change is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson said, clarifying that the plane landed "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on Friday morning.

Emergency responders indicated they got a call just three minutes prior to the plane touched down, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming more frequent - and more severe.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "considerable" turbulence just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a certain international flight endured a terrifying five seconds of severe turbulence. A traveler lost their life and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence during flights, and while cases of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a total of more than 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a plane passing through disturbed air exert greater than 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a restraint.

As global warming modifies the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are likely to heighten the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.