Multiple Hurt as Rough Air Strikes A Delta Airlines Aircraft Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals sustained injuries following a Delta Airlines aircraft from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced rough air on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier informed. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

Emergency medical services stated they assessed a total of five people, and took three to hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and migraines. The injured spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

The event represents the latest incident of aircraft being hit by atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a significant contributor.

There were 245 people and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson noted, adding that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

Emergency responders said they got a call just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane touched down, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

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

Last year, 25 people were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, experienced "severe" turbulence just two hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines flight went through a terrifying five seconds bout of severe turbulence. One passenger died and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

In-flight turbulence is a common occurrence while flying, and while cases of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are still very rare.

Data suggests that there are around five thousand cases of significant in-flight disturbance annually, out of a overall number of over 35 million journeys that currently occur globally.

Intense turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a jet going through unstable air exert more than a significant G-force on your body - sufficient force to lift you out of your seat if you weren't wearing a safety belt.

As global warming alters the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the jet stream level are likely to increase the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.