Several Affected as Rough Air Impacts Delta Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

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

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

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they treated five patients, and transferred a trio to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that such as back pain and head pain. The injured ranged from their 30s to 70s.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets encountering turbulence, with aviation specialists indicating that global warming is a significant contributor.

On board were nearly 250 travelers and 15 crew members on the aircraft, the Delta spokesperson said, adding that the plane arrived "safely" at Sydney Airport at 06:48 local time on Friday.

Paramedics said they were alerted just only 180 seconds before the plane arrived, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

The reasons turbulence is growing more common - and often stronger.

In the previous year, 25 people were injured when a separate Delta aircraft, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, hit "significant" turbulence just a couple of hours into the lengthy trip, and had to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a terrifying brief five-second of severe turbulence. One passenger died and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and fell back down.

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

Research indicates that there are around five thousand cases of severe or worse turbulence annually, out of a overall number of over 35 million journeys that now take off worldwide.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft going through disturbed air exert in excess of a significant G-force on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become bumpier: warming trends and altered air currents in the jet stream level are likely to boost the regularity and severity of dangerous in-flight bumps.