A Number of Affected as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals have been injured after a Delta jet originating in Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia encountered rough air on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. Four flight attendants were injured.

Local paramedics stated they assessed a total of five people, and transported three of them to a medical facility with minor injuries that such as back pain and head pain. Those affected were between their 30s to 70s.

The event represents the most recent case of planes encountering turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that global warming is a significant contributor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson said, stating that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

Paramedics indicated they received a call just a mere three minutes ahead of the plane arrived, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

The reasons turbulence is becoming more frequent - and more severe.

Last year, two dozen individuals were injured when another Delta jet, travelling from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, experienced "significant" rough air just a couple of hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an emergency landing.

Recently, travelers and staff on a certain international flight experienced a frightening five seconds period of extreme instability. An individual lost their life and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers lifted out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence during flights, and while cases of significant turbulence appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are an estimated thousands of instances of severe-or-greater turbulence each year, out of a sum of more than 35 million journeys that currently occur around the world.

Severe turbulence is described as when the up and down movements of a plane passing through unstable air generate greater than a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a restraint.

As climate change modifies the conditions in the sky, researchers alert that air travel could become less smooth: warming trends and shifting wind patterns in the jet stream level are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of significant turbulence.