Multiple Hurt as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Flight into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt when a Delta Airlines aircraft originating in Los Angeles to Sydney experienced significant turbulence on Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a representative for the carrier informed. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they treated five individuals, and transported a trio to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised spinal discomfort and migraines. The patients' ages ranged from their thirties and seventies.

This marks the most recent case of commercial jets experiencing turbulence, with researchers pointing out that climate change is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the representative added, adding that the plane touched down "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service reported they got a call just only 180 seconds prior to the plane touched down, and ambulances were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting increasingly prevalent - and potentially more dangerous.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when another Delta jet, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "severe" turbulence just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a frightening short but intense of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

In-flight turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while instances of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are still very rare.

Data suggests that there are approximately five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a total of more than 35 million aircraft departures that now take off worldwide.

Intense turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a plane passing through disturbed air exert more than a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As global warming modifies weather patterns, researchers alert that flying could become less smooth: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are likely to boost the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.