A Number of Hurt as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts A Delta Airlines Plane Landing at Sydney

A number of individuals sustained injuries after a Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Sydney encountered significant turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, a representative for the carrier informed. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service stated they assessed five individuals, and transported three to the hospital with relatively minor issues that such as pain in the back and head pain. The patients' ages spanned from their 30s to 70s.

It is the newest example of aircraft experiencing turbulence, with aviation specialists indicating that global warming is a major factor.

On board were 245 passengers and 15 crew members on the wide-body jet, the representative said, adding that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at Sydney Airport at 6:48 a.m. local time on Friday.

Paramedics indicated they got a call just a mere three minutes prior to the plane arrived, and response teams were ready and waiting at the airport.

The reasons turbulence is becoming more frequent - and potentially more dangerous.

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, encountered "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an emergency landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a certain international flight experienced a terrifying brief five-second period of extreme instability. A traveler died and numerous people sustained injuries, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and were slammed back.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence on aircraft journeys, and while occurrences of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are remained quite uncommon.

Estimates show that there are approximately five thousand cases of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a overall number of more than 35 million journeys that now take off worldwide.

Severe turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a plane experiencing disturbed air apply in excess of 1.5g-force on your body - a strong enough force to propel you from your seat if you did not have on a restraint.

As a changing climate alters atmospheric conditions, researchers alert that commercial aviation could become bumpier: warming trends and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to increase the occurrence and strength of dangerous in-flight bumps.