Several Injured as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Several people have been injured after a Delta flight originating in LA to Sydney, Australia experienced turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier informed. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Emergency medical services reported they treated a total of five people, and transported three of them to a medical facility with minor injuries that comprised back pain and headaches. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the newest example of commercial jets being hit by atmospheric disturbance, with experts saying that climate change is a major factor.

There were 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the aircraft, the official said, adding that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on the day in question.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they got a call just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane arrived, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming increasingly prevalent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, twenty-five passengers and crew sustained injuries when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, encountered "severe" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a certain international flight endured a terrifying five seconds of severe turbulence. A traveler passed away and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

In-flight turbulence is not uncommon on aircraft journeys, and while occurrences of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million journeys that are conducted around the world.

Severe turbulence is defined as when the up and down movements of a aircraft going through disturbed air exert greater than 1.5g-force on your body - enough to propel you from your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As climate change shifts weather patterns, specialists caution that air travel could become less smooth: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are likely to boost the regularity and severity of dangerous in-flight bumps.