Multiple Affected as Turbulence Hits A Delta Airlines Flight Landing at Sydney, Australia

Several people have been injured when a Delta Airlines jet from Los Angeles to Sydney encountered turbulence Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members were injured.

Emergency medical services stated they evaluated a total of five people, and took three to the hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and headaches. Those affected spanned from their thirties and seventies.

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

On board were 245 people and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson added, stating that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at the airport at 06:48 local time on Friday morning.

Emergency responders said they got a call just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and ambulances were ready and waiting at the airport.

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

In the previous year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "significant" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the lengthy trip, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a certain international flight endured a frightening brief five-second bout of severe turbulence. An individual died and dozens were injured, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is not uncommon during flights, and while occurrences of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a sum of more than 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur globally.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft experiencing disturbed air generate greater than 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a restraint.

As a changing climate modifies the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that flying could become more turbulent: warming trends and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are expected to heighten the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.