A Number of Affected as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

Several people sustained injuries after a Delta flight originating in LA to Sydney, Australia encountered turbulence this past Friday.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, a company official stated. Four flight attendants required medical attention.

Emergency medical services said they evaluated five individuals, and took three to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised pain in the back and headaches. Those affected ranged from their thirties and seventies.

This marks the latest incident of aircraft experiencing severe turbulence, with researchers indicating that global warming is a major factor.

On board were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the official noted, adding that the plane landed "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on Friday.

Paramedics indicated they were alerted just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane landed, and ambulances were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is becoming more common - and potentially more dangerous.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, hit "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, those on board on a certain international flight endured a harrowing short but intense period of extreme instability. One passenger died and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine on aircraft journeys, and while instances of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that now take off globally.

Severe turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft going through rough air masses generate greater than 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As global warming shifts atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that air travel could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are likely to increase the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.