A Number of Injured as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew were hurt following a Delta aircraft traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney encountered significant turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson informed. Several cabin crew members were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they evaluated a total of five people, and transferred a trio to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included pain in the back and migraines. The injured were between their thirties and seventies.

It is the most recent case of aircraft experiencing turbulence, with experts saying that global warming is a significant contributor.

There were nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the official added, clarifying that the plane landed "without further incident" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

Emergency responders reported they were alerted just a mere three minutes before the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is growing more frequent - and potentially more dangerous.

In the previous year, 25 people were hurt when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and had to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a frightening short but intense bout of severe turbulence. One passenger lost their life and many were hurt, as those without seatbelts were thrown from their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine while flying, and while cases of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that now take off around the world.

Intense turbulence is described as when the up and down movements of a jet experiencing disturbed air generate more than a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As climate change shifts the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: warming trends and altered air currents in the jet stream level are projected to boost the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.