Multiple Hurt as Turbulence Impacts A Delta Airlines Aircraft into Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt after a Delta Airlines jet from LA to Sydney experienced turbulence on Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a representative for the carrier informed. Four flight attendants were injured.

Emergency medical services stated they treated a total of five people, and took three to the hospital with relatively minor issues that included back pain and head pain. Those affected were between their 30s to 70s.

This marks the latest incident of aircraft experiencing turbulence, with researchers indicating that climate change is a significant contributor.

On board were 245 people and 15 crew members on the aircraft, the representative added, clarifying that the plane arrived "safely and normally" at the airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on the day in question.

The NSW Ambulance Service said they received a call just only 180 seconds prior to the plane landed, and response teams were standing by on the runway.

Why plane turbulence is becoming more common - and often stronger.

Last year, 25 people were injured when another Delta jet, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "considerable" turbulence just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Recently, those on board on a certain international flight went through a terrifying brief five-second bout of severe turbulence. One passenger lost their life and dozens were injured, as unbelted passengers were thrown from their seats and were slammed back.

Bumpy air is not uncommon during flights, and while instances of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Research indicates that there are around thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a total of more than 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur worldwide.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the up and down movements of a plane passing through unstable air apply in excess of 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to lift you out of your seat if you did not have on a seatbelt.

As a changing climate shifts the conditions in the sky, specialists caution that air travel could become bumpier: shifts in temperature and shifting wind patterns in the upper atmosphere are likely to heighten the frequency and intensity of severe turbulence.