Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Strikes A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals sustained injuries when a Delta flight from LA to Sydney experienced turbulence Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a company official informed. Four flight attendants were injured.

Emergency medical services stated they assessed five patients, and took three of them to a medical facility with minor injuries that included back pain and head pain. The injured were between their 30s up to the 70s.

The event represents the newest example of commercial jets experiencing turbulence, with aviation specialists indicating that climate change is a key driver.

The aircraft was carrying 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the representative added, adding that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Emergency responders indicated they received a call just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane arrived, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

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

In the previous year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and diverted for an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a frightening brief five-second of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and many were hurt, as those without seatbelts lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while occurrences of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are still very rare.

Research indicates that there are around five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million flights that are conducted worldwide.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is described as when the up and down movements of a jet experiencing disturbed air exert greater than a significant G-force on your body - sufficient force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As global warming shifts the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: warming trends and altered air currents in the jet stream level are likely to boost the occurrence and strength of significant turbulence.