Several Affected as Rough Air Impacts Delta Plane Arriving in Sydney, Australia

A number of individuals were hurt when a Delta Airlines flight traveling from LA to Sydney encountered turbulence on Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "went through a short bout of rough air" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a company official told. Four flight attendants were injured.

Local paramedics reported they treated a total of five people, and transported three of them to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included back pain and headaches. Those affected spanned from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the most recent case of commercial jets experiencing atmospheric disturbance, with experts indicating that global warming is a key driver.

The aircraft was carrying 245 people and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the Delta spokesperson noted, stating that the plane touched down "without further incident" at the airport at 06:48 local time on Friday.

Emergency responders said they received a call just a mere three minutes ahead of the plane arrived, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting more common - and often stronger.

Last year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a separate Delta aircraft, flying from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "considerable" atmospheric disturbance just two hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an emergency landing.

Recently, those on board on a certain international flight experienced a harrowing brief five-second of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and many were hurt, as unbelted passengers rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine on aircraft journeys, and while cases of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are still very rare.

Estimates show that there are approximately thousands of instances of severe or worse turbulence annually, out of a sum of over 35 million flights that currently occur around the world.

Intense turbulence is defined as when the vertical motions of a aircraft passing through disturbed air generate more than a significant G-force on your body - enough to throw you from your seat if you did not have on a safety belt.

As global warming modifies atmospheric conditions, experts warn that flying could become more turbulent: temperature changes and changing jet streams in the jet stream level are projected to increase the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.