A Number of Affected as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft Arriving in Sydney

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt when a Delta Airlines jet from LA to Sydney experienced turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier stated. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Local paramedics reported they evaluated five individuals, and transported three of them to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included back pain and headaches. The injured were between their thirties and seventies.

It is the latest incident of commercial jets being hit by severe turbulence, with experts pointing out that global warming is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the representative said, adding that the plane arrived "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they were alerted just a mere three minutes before the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

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

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "severe" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a certain international flight endured a harrowing five seconds of severe turbulence. A traveler died and many were hurt, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence while flying, and while instances of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance each year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million flights that are conducted around the world.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a plane going through rough air masses exert in excess of 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As a changing climate shifts atmospheric conditions, researchers alert that flying could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are likely to heighten the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.