A Number of Affected as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight into Sydney, Australia

Several people were hurt after a Delta jet originating in LA to Sydney, Australia encountered turbulence Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it touched down at the Sydney airport, a company official told. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

Emergency medical services stated they assessed five individuals, and took three to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that such as pain in the back and migraines. The patients' ages were between their 30s to 70s.

It is the most recent case of commercial jets encountering turbulence, with experts saying that shifting climate patterns is a major factor.

On board were 245 passengers and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the official said, stating that the plane arrived "safely" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The NSW Ambulance Service said they were alerted just only 180 seconds ahead of the plane touched down, and ambulances were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming more frequent - and more severe.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals were hurt when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, encountered "severe" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Recently, passengers and crew on a certain international flight went through a harrowing five seconds bout of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts lifted out of their seats and were slammed back.

Turbulence is fairly routine while flying, and while instances of strong or severe turbulence seem to be rising, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are an estimated thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence each year, out of a sum of more than 35 million flights that are conducted worldwide.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is described as when the vertical motions of a plane passing through rough air masses generate in excess of 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 shifts weather patterns, researchers alert that air travel could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the upper atmosphere are projected to boost the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.