Multiple Affected as Rough Air Impacts Delta Flight Landing at Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals have been injured following a Delta Airlines aircraft from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced rough air on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a company official informed. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

Local paramedics reported they evaluated a total of five people, and transported three to the hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised spinal discomfort and head pain. The patients' ages were between their thirties and seventies.

It is the most recent case of planes encountering severe turbulence, with experts indicating that shifting climate patterns is a major factor.

On board were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the Delta spokesperson added, adding that the plane touched down "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just three minutes before the plane touched down, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

Why plane turbulence is getting more frequent - and more severe.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "severe" turbulence just two hours into the long-haul flight, and diverted for an unscheduled landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a harrowing brief five-second bout of severe turbulence. One passenger lost their life and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while cases of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are approximately five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that now take off around the world.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a aircraft experiencing rough air masses generate more than a significant G-force on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a safety belt.

As global warming shifts the conditions in the sky, experts warn that air travel could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the jet stream level are projected to heighten the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.