Multiple Affected as Rough Air Hits A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney

Several people have been injured when a Delta flight traveling from LA to Sydney encountered significant turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, a company official stated. Four flight attendants were injured.

Local paramedics said they evaluated five patients, and transported a trio to a medical facility with relatively minor issues that included back pain and headaches. The injured spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the most recent case of aircraft experiencing severe turbulence, with researchers saying that global warming is a significant contributor.

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

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they got a call just a mere three minutes before the plane touched down, and ambulances were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming more common - and often stronger.

During the past year, two dozen individuals were hurt when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the lengthy trip, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a certain international flight endured a frightening five seconds bout of severe turbulence. A traveler died and many were hurt, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine while flying, and while occurrences of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are approximately 5,000 incidents of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a overall number of over 35 million flights that now take off around the world.

Intense turbulence is defined as when the sudden jolts of a jet going through disturbed air exert in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you weren't wearing a safety belt.

As global warming modifies the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that air travel could become less smooth: temperature changes and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.