Several Affected as Rough Air Hits A Delta Airlines Flight Landing at Sydney

Several people were hurt when a Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced significant turbulence this past Friday.

The flight, numbered 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official informed. Four flight attendants required medical attention.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service said they treated five individuals, and transported three of them to the hospital with minor injuries that included spinal discomfort and migraines. The patients' ages ranged from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the most recent case of planes encountering atmospheric disturbance, with researchers saying that global warming is a significant contributor.

On board were nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the representative noted, stating that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

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

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

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when another Delta jet, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "severe" turbulence just two hours into the lengthy trip, and had to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight experienced a terrifying brief five-second of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is not uncommon during flights, and while instances of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are still very rare.

Data suggests that there are around thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a overall number of over 35 million aircraft departures that now take off around the world.

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

As global warming shifts the conditions in the sky, experts warn that flying could become more turbulent: temperature changes and altered air currents in the jet stream level are expected to heighten the occurrence and strength of severe turbulence.