Multiple Injured as Rough Air Strikes Delta Flight Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew sustained injuries when a Delta jet from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia encountered rough air on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, an airline spokesperson told. Several cabin crew members were injured.

Local paramedics reported they evaluated five patients, and took a trio to hospital with relatively minor issues that such as back pain and head pain. Those affected ranged from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets experiencing atmospheric disturbance, with researchers pointing out that climate change is a significant contributor.

On board were 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the aircraft, the official said, clarifying that the plane touched down "without further incident" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Paramedics said they received a call just a mere three minutes before the plane landed, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is getting increasingly prevalent - and potentially more dangerous.

During the past year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a Singapore Airlines jet endured a harrowing brief five-second of severe turbulence. An individual died and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

In-flight turbulence is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while instances of significant turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance annually, out of a total of in excess of 35 million journeys that are conducted around the world.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is defined as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft experiencing disturbed air generate more than 1.5g-force on your body - enough to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: warming trends and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are likely to increase the frequency and intensity of significant turbulence.