Multiple Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts Delta Plane into Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured following a Delta flight originating in Los Angeles to Sydney was hit by turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Local paramedics said they treated a total of five people, and took three of them to the hospital with relatively minor issues that comprised pain in the back and migraines. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

It is the latest incident of aircraft experiencing severe turbulence, with researchers pointing out that global warming is a key driver.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson said, stating that the plane touched down "without further incident" at the airport at 06:48 local time on the day in question.

Paramedics indicated they were alerted just three minutes prior to the plane landed, and ambulances were waiting on the tarmac.

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

During the past year, two dozen individuals were injured when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, hit "considerable" turbulence just 120 minutes into the long-haul flight, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a certain international flight went through a harrowing five seconds bout of severe turbulence. A traveler passed away and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is not uncommon during flights, and while cases of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are around thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a total of more than 35 million flights that now take off worldwide.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft experiencing unstable air generate greater than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you weren't wearing a safety belt.

As climate change shifts the conditions in the sky, experts warn that flying could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and changing jet streams in the upper atmosphere are likely to boost the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.