Multiple Injured as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals sustained injuries after a Delta Airlines aircraft traveling from LA to Sydney encountered rough air Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier told. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they assessed five patients, and took a trio to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that such as back pain and head pain. The patients' ages were between their thirties and seventies.

It is the most recent case of commercial jets experiencing atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists indicating that shifting climate patterns is a key driver.

There were 245 passengers and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the representative noted, stating that the plane landed "without further incident" at the airport at 06:48 local time on the day in question.

Paramedics reported they were alerted just three minutes ahead of the plane arrived, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is becoming increasingly prevalent - and often stronger.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew were hurt when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "severe" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an emergency landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a frightening five seconds of severe turbulence. A traveler died and numerous people sustained injuries, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

In-flight turbulence is not uncommon on aircraft journeys, and while occurrences of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are around five thousand cases of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a overall number of more than 35 million journeys that currently occur worldwide.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft going through unstable air generate in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As climate change shifts weather patterns, experts warn that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are likely to heighten the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.