Several Affected as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured after a Delta jet from LA to Sydney, Australia encountered turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at the Sydney airport, a company official told. A number of the onboard staff were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they assessed five patients, and transported three of them to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

The event represents the latest incident of commercial jets being hit by atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists saying that global warming is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying 245 passengers and a crew of 15 on the aircraft, the representative said, stating that the plane touched down "safely" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

Paramedics said they got a call just three minutes ahead of the plane landed, and ambulances were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting increasingly prevalent - and more severe.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when another Delta jet, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "significant" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a certain international flight experienced a terrifying short but intense 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.

In-flight turbulence is fairly routine while flying, and while cases of strong or severe turbulence appear to be increasing, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are approximately thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a sum of over 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a plane passing through disturbed air exert 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 a changing climate alters atmospheric conditions, researchers alert that flying could become less smooth: warming trends and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are expected to increase the regularity and severity of dangerous in-flight bumps.