A Number of Hurt as Rough Air Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew sustained injuries after a Delta Airlines jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia was hit by turbulence on Friday morning.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a representative for the carrier informed. Four flight attendants were injured.

Local paramedics said they treated five individuals, and took a trio to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that such as back pain and head pain. Those affected spanned from their thirties and seventies.

This marks the newest example of planes experiencing atmospheric disturbance, with aviation specialists saying that shifting climate patterns is a major factor.

On board were 245 people and 15 crew members on the Airbus A350, the official added, adding that the plane landed "safely" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Paramedics indicated they were alerted just only 180 seconds before the plane touched down, and emergency vehicles were ready and waiting at the airport.

Why in-flight bumpiness is becoming more common - and more severe.

Last year, 25 people were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, encountered "severe" atmospheric disturbance just 120 minutes into the lengthy trip, and was forced to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, those on board on a Singapore Airlines flight went through a terrifying five seconds bout of severe turbulence. One passenger passed away and many were hurt, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Bumpy air is a common occurrence during flights, and while cases of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are approximately thousands of instances of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a overall number of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that now take off around the world.

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

As global warming modifies weather patterns, specialists caution that flying could become bumpier: warming trends and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are likely to heighten the frequency and intensity of severe turbulence.