Several Hurt as In-Flight Disturbance Hits A Delta Airlines Flight Landing at Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt following a Delta aircraft originating in LA to Sydney, Australia encountered turbulence Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson informed. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service said they assessed five individuals, and took three of them to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages were between their 30s up to the 70s.

The event represents the most recent case of aircraft experiencing turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a major factor.

On board were nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the aircraft, the official said, adding that the plane arrived "safely" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Paramedics said they received a call just three minutes prior to the plane touched down, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming more common - and more severe.

During the past year, two dozen individuals were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "significant" rough air just a couple of hours into the lengthy trip, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a frightening five seconds period of extreme instability. One passenger passed away and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is a common occurrence while flying, and while instances of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are around five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a overall number of over 35 million flights that now take off around the world.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a aircraft experiencing rough air masses exert more than 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As climate change alters atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that flying could become more turbulent: warming trends and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are expected to increase the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.