Several Hurt as Turbulence Strikes Delta Flight into Sydney

A number of individuals were hurt when a Delta jet traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia encountered significant turbulence this past Friday.

The flight, numbered 41 "encountered brief turbulence" as it made its approach and landed at Sydney Airport, a representative for the carrier told. A number of the onboard staff required medical attention.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service reported they evaluated a total of five people, and took three to a medical facility with non-life-threatening injuries that comprised spinal discomfort and head pain. The injured were between their 30s to 70s.

This marks the most recent case of commercial jets experiencing turbulence, with experts saying that climate change is a major factor.

There were 245 people and fifteen staff members on the Airbus A350, the official added, clarifying that the plane arrived "safely" at Sydney Airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on Friday.

Paramedics indicated they received a call just only 180 seconds before the plane touched down, and response teams were waiting on the tarmac.

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

During the past year, twenty-five passengers and crew were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "severe" atmospheric disturbance just a couple of hours into the long-haul flight, and was forced to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, those on board on a certain international flight experienced a harrowing short but intense of severe turbulence. An individual died and many were hurt, as individuals not fastened in lifted out of their seats and fell back down.

In-flight turbulence is fairly routine during flights, and while occurrences of significant turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Estimates show that there are an estimated 5,000 incidents of severe-or-greater turbulence annually, out of a overall number of more than 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted globally.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the sudden jolts of a jet going through rough air masses generate in excess of 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - sufficient force to lift you out of your seat if you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

As climate change shifts atmospheric conditions, specialists caution that commercial aviation could become less smooth: temperature changes and altered air currents in the upper atmosphere are likely to heighten the regularity and severity of severe turbulence.