A Number of Hurt as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt when a Delta jet from Los Angeles to Sydney encountered turbulence this past Friday.

The flight, numbered 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

Emergency medical services said they assessed five patients, and took three to hospital with minor injuries that such as spinal discomfort and migraines. The patients' ages ranged from their 30s to 70s.

It is the latest incident of planes encountering severe turbulence, with experts saying that global warming is a major factor.

On board were 245 people and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the official said, clarifying that the plane landed "safely" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane landed, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting increasingly prevalent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "severe" rough air just two hours into the long-haul flight, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a certain international flight went through a frightening short but intense period of extreme instability. An individual passed away 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 appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are around thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million flights that are conducted globally.

Intense turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a plane going through rough air masses generate more than 1.5g-force on your body - sufficient force to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that air travel could become bumpier: temperature changes and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are likely to heighten the occurrence and strength of significant turbulence.