Multiple Affected as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt when a Delta Airlines aircraft from LA to Sydney experienced significant turbulence on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson stated. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they assessed a total of five people, and transported a trio to the hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and migraines. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

The event represents the most recent case of planes encountering severe turbulence, with experts saying that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson said, stating that the plane arrived "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Emergency responders indicated they got a call just three minutes before the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were standing by on the runway.

Why plane turbulence is becoming increasingly prevalent - and potentially more dangerous.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when another Delta jet, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "severe" turbulence just 120 minutes into the lengthy trip, and had to make an emergency landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a terrifying five seconds bout of severe turbulence. An individual lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while occurrences of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are an estimated thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a jet going through rough air masses apply greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As global warming modifies the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that flying could become less smooth: warming trends and changing jet streams in the higher altitudes are projected to increase the occurrence and strength of significant turbulence.