Multiple Injured as Turbulence Hits A Delta Airlines Flight into Sydney

Several people have been injured when a Delta Airlines jet from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced turbulence Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. Several cabin crew members were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they treated a total of five people, and transferred three to the hospital with relatively minor issues that such as pain in the back and headaches. Those affected ranged from their thirties and seventies.

It is the most recent case of commercial jets being hit by atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists pointing out that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

On board were 245 passengers and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the Delta spokesperson added, adding that the plane touched down "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Emergency responders said they received a call just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane touched down, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

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

In the previous year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just 120 minutes into the lengthy trip, and diverted for an emergency landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines flight endured a harrowing brief five-second period of extreme instability. An individual passed away and numerous people sustained injuries, as unbelted passengers lifted out of their seats and crashed back down.

In-flight turbulence is fairly routine while flying, and while cases of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are approximately five thousand cases of significant in-flight disturbance annually, out of a overall number of more than 35 million journeys that currently occur around the world.

Intense turbulence is described as when the vertical motions of a aircraft experiencing rough air masses exert greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

As climate change shifts weather patterns, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become bumpier: warming trends and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are likely to heighten the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.