Multiple Injured as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane Landing at Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt after a Delta Airlines flight from LA to Sydney was hit by significant turbulence on Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. A number of the onboard staff required medical attention.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they evaluated five patients, and transferred three of them to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that such as pain in the back and headaches. Those affected spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the latest incident of planes experiencing turbulence, with experts pointing out that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and 15 crew members on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, clarifying that the plane landed "safely" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on the day in question.

Paramedics reported they got a call just a mere three minutes before the plane arrived, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is getting more common - and more severe.

Last year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "significant" turbulence just a couple of hours into the lengthy trip, and diverted for an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a terrifying five seconds period of extreme instability. One passenger passed away and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while cases of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around five thousand cases of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur around the world.

Severe turbulence is described as when the vertical motions of a aircraft passing through disturbed air apply greater than a significant G-force on your body - a strong enough force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As global warming modifies the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that flying could become bumpier: warming trends and altered air currents in the jet stream level are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.