Several Affected as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts Delta Flight Landing at Sydney, Australia

Several people sustained injuries after a Delta Airlines aircraft from LA to Sydney encountered significant turbulence on Friday morning.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a company official told. Four flight attendants required medical attention.

Local paramedics said they evaluated five patients, and transferred three of them to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that such as back pain and head pain. The patients' ages ranged from their thirties and seventies.

The event represents the latest incident of commercial jets being hit by turbulence, with aviation specialists saying that climate change is a significant contributor.

There were 245 people and a crew of 15 on the wide-body jet, the official noted, clarifying that the plane arrived "without further incident" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Paramedics indicated they received a call just only 180 seconds prior to the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

Why plane turbulence is becoming increasingly prevalent - and more severe.

Last year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, experienced "severe" rough air just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and diverted for an precautionary landing.

Earlier this year, passengers and crew on a certain international flight endured a terrifying brief five-second of severe turbulence. A traveler lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as unbelted passengers lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is not uncommon on aircraft journeys, and while occurrences of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Data suggests that there are an estimated thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence every year, out of a sum of in excess of 35 million flights that now take off around the world.

Strong atmospheric disturbance is categorized as when the vertical motions of a jet experiencing unstable air generate more than 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - sufficient force to throw you from your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As a changing climate modifies the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become more turbulent: shifts in temperature and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are likely to boost the occurrence and strength of severe turbulence.