Several Hurt as Turbulence Impacts Delta Aircraft into Sydney

A number of individuals have been injured when a Delta flight traveling from LA to Sydney was hit by significant turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official informed. A number of the onboard staff sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service said they treated five patients, and took a trio to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that included pain in the back and head pain. The injured ranged from their 30s to 70s.

It is the latest incident of commercial jets experiencing severe turbulence, with researchers pointing out that global warming is a major factor.

There were nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the official added, stating that the plane touched down "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Paramedics reported they got a call just a mere three minutes prior to the plane landed, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is growing more frequent - and potentially more dangerous.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "severe" turbulence just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a terrifying short but intense bout of severe turbulence. A traveler died and many were hurt, as those without seatbelts lifted out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine during flights, and while instances of rough conditions seem to be rising, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are an estimated five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a overall number of over 35 million journeys that are conducted globally.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft experiencing unstable air exert in excess of 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As global warming modifies the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that air travel could become less smooth: warming trends and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to increase the occurrence and strength of significant turbulence.