Multiple Affected as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft Landing at Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia encountered turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, a company official stated. Four flight attendants were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they treated five individuals, and took a trio to the hospital with relatively minor issues that included pain in the back and headaches. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets encountering turbulence, with experts pointing out that shifting climate patterns is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson noted, clarifying that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday.

Paramedics reported they got a call just only 180 seconds prior to the plane touched down, and ambulances 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, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "significant" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a harrowing brief five-second period of extreme instability. A traveler died and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is a common occurrence while flying, and while cases of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are an estimated five thousand cases of significant in-flight disturbance each year, out of a total of in excess of 35 million flights that now take off worldwide.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a jet going through rough air masses generate greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to propel you from your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As global warming shifts the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that flying could become more turbulent: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the higher altitudes are expected to increase the regularity and severity of dangerous in-flight bumps.