Multiple Hurt as Rough Air Strikes A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney

Several people were hurt following a Delta aircraft from LA to Sydney was hit by turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official told. Several cabin crew members were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service said they assessed a total of five people, and transported a trio to a medical facility with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and headaches. Those affected spanned from their thirties and seventies.

The event represents the newest example of aircraft encountering severe turbulence, with experts saying that global warming is a key driver.

There were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, adding that the plane arrived "without further incident" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

Emergency responders said they were alerted just only 180 seconds before the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is becoming more common - and often stronger.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "significant" turbulence just two hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a terrifying five seconds bout of severe turbulence. An individual died and many were hurt, as individuals not fastened in were thrown from their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine during flights, and while occurrences of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are an estimated five thousand cases of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Intense turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a jet passing through unstable air apply more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As climate change modifies the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that flying could become more turbulent: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the higher altitudes are likely to heighten the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.