Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts Delta Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt when a Delta Airlines jet from LA to Sydney, Australia encountered rough air this past Friday.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official informed. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

Local paramedics said they treated a total of five people, and transported a trio to a medical facility with relatively minor issues that included back pain and headaches. The patients' ages ranged from their thirties and seventies.

This marks the latest incident of aircraft encountering turbulence, with researchers indicating that global warming is a key driver.

On board were 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the official said, clarifying that the plane landed "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Emergency responders reported they were alerted 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 becoming more common - and often stronger.

During the past year, 25 people sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, hit "significant" rough air just 120 minutes into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a harrowing five seconds bout of severe turbulence. One passenger lost their life and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while cases of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are approximately 5,000 incidents of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million journeys that are conducted globally.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a jet going through unstable air exert in excess of 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a safety belt.

As climate change alters the conditions in the sky, experts warn that commercial aviation could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are expected to heighten the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.