A Number of Affected as Turbulence Impacts Delta Flight Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt after a Delta jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced turbulence Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson informed. A number of the onboard staff sustained injuries.

Local paramedics stated they evaluated a total of five people, and transferred a trio to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised spinal discomfort and headaches. Those affected spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

It is the latest incident of planes encountering atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists pointing out that shifting climate patterns is a significant contributor.

There were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the representative said, adding that the plane arrived "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

The NSW Ambulance Service reported they got a call just a mere three minutes prior to the plane arrived, and ambulances were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why plane turbulence is growing more frequent - and more severe.

Last year, two dozen individuals were hurt when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "significant" turbulence just a couple of hours into the lengthy trip, and had to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a terrifying short but intense of severe turbulence. An individual died and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine on aircraft journeys, and while cases of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million flights that currently occur globally.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a plane experiencing unstable air generate greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As climate change shifts the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that air travel could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are likely to boost the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.