Multiple Affected as Turbulence Strikes Delta Flight Arriving in Sydney

A number of individuals have been injured when a Delta aircraft from LA to Sydney, Australia was hit by turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. A number of the onboard staff sustained injuries.

Emergency medical services stated they assessed a total of five people, and transported three to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that such as pain in the back and head pain. The injured were between their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets encountering turbulence, with researchers saying that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

There were 245 people and 15 crew members on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, stating that the plane landed "safely" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Emergency responders reported they got a call just a mere three minutes before the plane touched down, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

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

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

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a harrowing five seconds period of extreme instability. An individual lost their life and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence during flights, and while instances of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million aircraft departures that now take off around the world.

Severe turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a plane experiencing disturbed air apply more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

As a changing climate modifies the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are likely to increase the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.