A Number of Affected as Turbulence Strikes Delta Plane into Sydney, Australia

Several people were hurt when a Delta aircraft traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney encountered turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson stated. Four flight attendants were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they assessed a total of five people, and took three of them to hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised back pain and migraines. Those affected ranged from their thirties and seventies.

It is the latest incident of commercial jets encountering severe turbulence, with researchers indicating that global warming is a key driver.

On board were nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the official said, stating that the plane landed "without further incident" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they got a call just three minutes prior to the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is getting more frequent - and more severe.

In the previous year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, hit "considerable" turbulence just 120 minutes into the lengthy trip, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a harrowing brief five-second of severe turbulence. A traveler died and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is a common occurrence during flights, and while occurrences of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are an estimated five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a total of in excess of 35 million journeys that now take off worldwide.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a jet experiencing rough air masses apply in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

As climate change modifies atmospheric conditions, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are expected to boost the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.