Several Hurt as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

Several people sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia encountered turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson told. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

Emergency medical services reported they evaluated a total of five people, and took three of them to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that included pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages spanned from their thirties and seventies.

This marks the most recent case of aircraft experiencing severe turbulence, with researchers pointing out that climate change is a major factor.

On board were nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the aircraft, the Delta spokesperson added, adding that the plane arrived "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Emergency responders reported they were alerted just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and ambulances were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting more frequent - and more severe.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight experienced a frightening short but intense of severe turbulence. A traveler died and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and crashed back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while occurrences of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are approximately 5,000 incidents of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a total of more than 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted around the world.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a plane going through disturbed air generate greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As climate change modifies weather patterns, experts warn that air travel could become less smooth: warming trends and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are projected to boost the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.