Several Injured as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals have been injured following a Delta Airlines jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

Emergency medical services stated they treated five patients, and took three of them to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that such as pain in the back and headaches. The patients' ages spanned from their thirties and seventies.

This marks the latest incident of aircraft being hit by turbulence, with experts indicating that global warming is a key driver.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and a crew of 15 on the aircraft, the Delta spokesperson added, clarifying that the plane touched down "safely" at the airport at 06:48 local time on Friday.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they received a call just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

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

Last year, two dozen individuals were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "considerable" rough air just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a certain international flight went through a frightening five seconds period of extreme instability. A traveler passed away and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is a common occurrence during flights, and while cases of rough conditions seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a total of over 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur globally.

Severe turbulence is defined as when the vertical motions of a plane experiencing unstable air exert greater than 1.5g-force on your body - enough to propel you from your seat if you were not fastened by a safety belt.

As a changing climate shifts the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that flying could become less smooth: temperature changes and shifting wind patterns in the upper atmosphere are expected to increase the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.