Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured after a Delta aircraft originating in LA to Sydney encountered turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier stated. Four flight attendants were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they treated five individuals, and transported three to a medical facility with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and head pain. The injured were between their 30s to 70s.

The event represents the newest example of planes experiencing severe turbulence, with researchers indicating that global warming is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson added, adding that the plane landed "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Paramedics reported they got a call just only 180 seconds prior to the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is getting more common - and potentially more dangerous.

Last year, two dozen individuals were hurt when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, hit "significant" rough air just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a frightening brief five-second period of extreme instability. A traveler died and dozens were injured, as those without seatbelts lifted out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence during flights, and while cases of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are around five thousand cases of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million journeys that currently occur globally.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is defined as when the sudden jolts of a plane experiencing unstable air exert more than 1.5 times the force of gravity 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 shifts weather patterns, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are projected to boost the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.