Several Injured as Turbulence Hits Delta Flight Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals have been injured following a Delta Airlines jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia was hit by significant turbulence Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson informed. Four flight attendants required medical attention.

Emergency medical services stated they evaluated five individuals, and transported a trio to a medical facility with relatively minor issues that comprised back pain and head pain. The patients' ages ranged from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets being hit by atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a key driver.

There were 245 people and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson added, stating that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Paramedics indicated they received a call just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is getting more frequent - and potentially more dangerous.

Last year, two dozen individuals were injured when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "significant" rough air just 120 minutes into the transoceanic journey, and diverted for an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a certain international flight experienced a terrifying five seconds period of extreme instability. An individual lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine during flights, and while instances of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are approximately five thousand cases of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that now take off globally.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is defined as when the up and down movements of a jet going through rough air masses apply in excess of 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 climate change modifies weather patterns, researchers alert that air travel could become bumpier: warming trends and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.