A Number of Hurt as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt after a Delta Airlines flight traveling from LA to Sydney experienced rough air Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson stated. Four flight attendants required medical attention.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service said they treated a total of five people, and took three of them to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that such as spinal discomfort and migraines. The injured ranged from their thirties and seventies.

It is the latest incident of aircraft encountering severe turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson said, stating that the plane touched down "without further incident" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Emergency responders indicated they got a call just three minutes ahead of the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is growing more common - and potentially more dangerous.

During the past year, two dozen individuals were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "significant" turbulence just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a frightening brief five-second of severe turbulence. A traveler died and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is not uncommon while flying, and while instances of rough conditions seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

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

Intense turbulence is defined as when the sudden jolts of a plane passing through rough air masses generate more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As global warming shifts the conditions in the sky, experts warn that commercial aviation could become less smooth: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the upper atmosphere are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of severe turbulence.