Multiple Injured as Turbulence Impacts Delta Flight into Sydney, Australia

Several people have been injured following a Delta flight from LA to Sydney was hit by significant turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson stated. A number of the onboard staff required medical attention.

Emergency medical services stated they treated five individuals, and took a trio to hospital with minor injuries that such as spinal discomfort and head pain. The injured spanned from their 30s to 70s.

It is the latest incident of planes encountering severe turbulence, with experts saying that climate change is a key driver.

On board were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the representative added, stating that the plane landed "safely and normally" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday.

Paramedics indicated they were alerted just a mere three minutes prior to the plane touched down, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is getting more frequent - and often stronger.

Last year, 25 people were injured when another Delta jet, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "severe" rough air just 120 minutes into the lengthy trip, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a certain international flight went through a terrifying brief five-second bout of severe turbulence. An individual lost their life and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine while flying, and while cases of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance annually, out of a total of over 35 million aircraft departures that now take off worldwide.

Severe turbulence is described as when the vertical motions of a jet experiencing unstable air apply in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As climate change modifies the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become bumpier: warming trends and shifting wind patterns in the higher altitudes are likely to boost the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.