Several Injured as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt when a Delta jet originating in Los Angeles to Sydney was hit by turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson informed. Four flight attendants required medical attention.

Emergency medical services said they assessed five patients, and transported a trio to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that such as back pain and head pain. Those affected were between their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the latest incident of planes encountering atmospheric disturbance, with experts indicating that global warming is a key driver.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the official added, clarifying that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just three minutes before the plane arrived, and ambulances were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting more common - and often stronger.

In the previous year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "severe" 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 went through a frightening brief five-second bout of severe turbulence. One passenger lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is not uncommon during flights, and while cases of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are still very rare.

Data suggests that there are around five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur worldwide.

Severe turbulence is defined as when the vertical motions of a jet going through disturbed air generate more than a significant G-force on your body - a strong enough force to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As climate change modifies weather patterns, specialists caution that flying could become more turbulent: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of severe turbulence.