Several Injured as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts Delta Flight Landing at Sydney

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured after a Delta jet traveling from LA to Sydney encountered rough air this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier told. Several cabin crew members required medical attention.

Local paramedics stated they treated a total of five people, and transferred a trio to hospital with relatively minor issues that such as pain in the back and headaches. The injured were between their thirties and seventies.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets experiencing turbulence, with experts pointing out that global warming is a key driver.

On board were 245 people and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the representative noted, stating that the plane touched down "safely" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service indicated they were alerted just three minutes ahead of the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is growing increasingly prevalent - and often stronger.

In the previous year, 25 people were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, travelling from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, experienced "severe" turbulence just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a certain international flight went through a frightening five seconds of severe turbulence. One passenger lost their life and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while cases of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are an estimated five thousand cases of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur worldwide.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a aircraft experiencing rough air masses exert greater than a significant G-force on your body - sufficient force to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As climate change modifies weather patterns, researchers alert that flying could become more turbulent: warming trends and altered air currents in the jet stream level are likely to boost the occurrence and strength of severe turbulence.