Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Hits A Delta Airlines Aircraft Landing at Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt following a Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia was hit by turbulence this past Friday.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Local paramedics said they evaluated five individuals, and transported three of them to hospital with minor injuries that comprised back pain and migraines. Those affected ranged from their 30s to 70s.

The event represents the latest incident of aircraft being hit by severe turbulence, with experts indicating that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the official added, stating that the plane arrived "safely" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on the day in question.

The NSW Ambulance Service said they received a call just only 180 seconds before the plane landed, and ambulances were standing by on the runway.

Why plane turbulence is growing more common - and potentially more dangerous.

In the previous year, 25 people were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just 120 minutes into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a terrifying short but intense period of extreme instability. An individual died and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is not uncommon while flying, and while instances of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are an estimated thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million flights that currently occur around the world.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is defined as when the vertical motions of a aircraft experiencing rough air masses exert greater than 1.5g-force on your body - sufficient force to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As global warming modifies atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become bumpier: warming trends and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are likely to increase the regularity and severity of significant turbulence.