Multiple Injured as Turbulence Impacts Delta Aircraft Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Several people sustained injuries after a Delta jet from LA to Sydney experienced significant turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members were injured.

Emergency medical services stated they evaluated five patients, and transferred three to hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages were between their 30s to 70s.

The event represents the most recent case of commercial jets experiencing turbulence, with experts saying that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

There were 245 passengers and a crew of 15 on the aircraft, the representative added, clarifying that the plane arrived "safely" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just a mere three minutes prior to the plane arrived, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

The reasons turbulence is becoming more frequent - and potentially more dangerous.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a terrifying five seconds period of extreme instability. A traveler lost their life and many were hurt, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is a common occurrence while flying, and while instances of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are still very rare.

Research indicates that there are around 5,000 incidents of severe or worse turbulence annually, out of a overall number of more than 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is described as when the sudden jolts of a jet going through rough air masses exert more than a significant G-force on your body - a strong enough force to propel you from your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that flying could become bumpier: warming trends and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to boost the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.