Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts Delta Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

Several people were hurt after a Delta aircraft originating in LA to Sydney encountered turbulence on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson stated. Four flight attendants were injured.

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

This marks the latest incident of planes encountering turbulence, with experts saying that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the official noted, adding that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Paramedics reported they received a call just a mere three minutes ahead of the plane landed, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming increasingly prevalent - and more severe.

Last year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a terrifying brief five-second bout of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is a common occurrence during flights, and while instances of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are still very rare.

Research indicates 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 are conducted worldwide.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the up and down movements of a plane passing through disturbed air apply 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 safety belt.

As a changing climate alters weather patterns, researchers alert that air travel could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the upper atmosphere are projected to boost the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.