Several Injured as Rough Air Impacts Delta Plane into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt when a Delta Airlines jet from LA to Sydney encountered rough air Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a company official told. Four flight attendants sustained injuries.

Local paramedics said they assessed five individuals, and transferred three to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that included spinal discomfort and migraines. The patients' ages were between their thirties and seventies.

This marks the latest incident of commercial jets encountering severe turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a key driver.

There were 245 people and a crew of 15 on the Airbus A350, the representative added, clarifying that the plane landed "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service reported they received a call just only 180 seconds before the plane touched down, and emergency vehicles were standing by on the runway.

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

In the previous year, 25 people sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "severe" rough air just 120 minutes into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines jet went through a terrifying five seconds bout of severe turbulence. A traveler passed away and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts lifted out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine while flying, and while occurrences of rough conditions appear to be increasing, they are statistically infrequent.

Research indicates that there are around five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a sum of more than 35 million journeys that currently occur worldwide.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the up and down movements of a jet passing through rough air masses exert more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - sufficient force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As global warming modifies weather patterns, specialists caution that flying could become less smooth: temperature changes and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are likely to heighten the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.