Several Injured as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney

A number of individuals sustained injuries after a Delta aircraft traveling from LA to Sydney experienced rough air this past Friday.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson told. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they treated five patients, and transported a trio to hospital with relatively minor issues that such as pain in the back and head pain. The injured ranged from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the most recent case of planes encountering severe turbulence, with experts indicating that climate change is a key driver.

On board were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, adding that the plane landed "safely" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they were alerted just three minutes prior to the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is getting more frequent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, 25 people were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "significant" rough air just two hours into the lengthy trip, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a harrowing five seconds of severe turbulence. One passenger died and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine on aircraft journeys, and while cases of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are approximately five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million journeys that now take off globally.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a plane going through disturbed air generate greater than a significant G-force on your body - sufficient force to propel you from your seat if you weren't wearing a safety belt.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that flying could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the jet stream level are projected to heighten the frequency and intensity of dangerous in-flight bumps.