Several Affected as Turbulence Impacts Delta Flight Landing at Sydney

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured following a Delta Airlines aircraft from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced rough air Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a representative for the carrier stated. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

Emergency medical services said they assessed a total of five people, and took three to the hospital with minor injuries that such as back pain and head pain. The injured were between their 30s up to the 70s.

It is the most recent case of aircraft encountering turbulence, with researchers saying that global warming is a significant contributor.

There were nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the representative added, clarifying that the plane arrived "safely" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

The NSW Ambulance Service reported they got a call just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is becoming more frequent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals were hurt when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, hit "severe" rough air just two hours into the lengthy trip, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines flight went through a harrowing brief five-second of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is not uncommon on aircraft journeys, and while occurrences of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are an estimated five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted around the world.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft going through unstable air apply more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, experts warn that air travel could become bumpier: temperature changes and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are likely to increase the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.