A Number of Injured as Rough Air Hits A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt following a Delta aircraft from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced significant turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. Several cabin crew members were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they evaluated five patients, and took three to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that such as spinal discomfort and head pain. The injured were between their 30s up to the 70s.

The event represents the most recent case of aircraft being hit by turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a major factor.

On board were 245 people and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson noted, stating that the plane touched down "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Paramedics reported they got a call just only 180 seconds before the plane landed, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming increasingly prevalent - and more severe.

In the previous year, 25 people were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "severe" rough air just 120 minutes into the long-haul flight, and diverted for an emergency landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a terrifying short but intense bout of severe turbulence. An individual lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is a common occurrence during flights, and while cases of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a total of more than 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur globally.

Severe turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a plane going through unstable air generate greater than 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As climate change alters the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that flying could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are expected to boost the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.