Multiple Injured as Rough Air Hits A Delta Airlines Flight Landing at Sydney, Australia

Several people sustained injuries following a Delta jet from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia was hit by rough air this past Friday.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it landed at Sydney Airport, a company official told. A number of the onboard staff sustained injuries.

Emergency medical services said they evaluated a total of five people, and transferred three to the hospital with relatively minor issues that such as pain in the back and headaches. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the most recent case of planes encountering turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and 15 crew members on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, clarifying that the plane landed "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on the day in question.

Paramedics said they received a call just three minutes before the plane arrived, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is becoming increasingly prevalent - and potentially more dangerous.

In the previous year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "severe" turbulence just 120 minutes into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, those on board on a certain international flight endured a harrowing five seconds of severe turbulence. A traveler lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine while flying, and while cases of rough conditions seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a sum of over 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a aircraft passing through disturbed air exert more than a significant G-force on your body - enough to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As global warming shifts atmospheric conditions, experts warn that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of significant turbulence.