A Number of Hurt as Rough Air Impacts Delta Flight into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured when a Delta Airlines jet from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced turbulence Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson stated. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they evaluated five patients, and transported a trio to the hospital with minor injuries that such as pain in the back and head pain. The injured ranged from their 30s up to the 70s.

It is the newest example of commercial jets experiencing turbulence, with experts indicating that climate change is a significant contributor.

There were nearly 250 travelers and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson noted, clarifying that the plane landed "safely and normally" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service reported they received a call just a mere three minutes prior to the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is getting increasingly prevalent - and often stronger.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a frightening brief five-second period of extreme instability. A traveler lost their life and many were hurt, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine during flights, and while instances of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are still very rare.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million flights that are conducted globally.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft going through rough air masses generate greater than a significant G-force on your body - a strong enough force to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As climate change modifies weather patterns, specialists caution that flying could become bumpier: temperature changes and shifting wind patterns in the upper atmosphere are projected to heighten the occurrence and strength of severe turbulence.