A Number of Affected as In-Flight Disturbance Impacts A Delta Airlines Flight into Sydney

Several people have been injured after a Delta jet from LA to Sydney, Australia encountered significant turbulence Friday morning.

Flight DL41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it landed at the Sydney airport, a company official told. Several cabin crew members were injured.

The New South Wales Ambulance Service said they assessed five individuals, and transported three to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that included pain in the back and head pain. Those affected ranged from their thirties and seventies.

The event represents the newest example of commercial jets being hit by severe turbulence, with experts indicating that climate change is a major factor.

The aircraft was carrying nearly 250 travelers and fifteen staff members on the aircraft, the official said, clarifying that the plane touched down "safely and normally" at the airport at 06:48 local time on Friday.

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

Why plane turbulence is growing increasingly prevalent - and potentially more dangerous.

During the past year, 25 people were injured when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, Netherlands, experienced "considerable" rough air just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an unscheduled landing.

Earlier this year, travelers and staff on a Singapore Airlines jet experienced a harrowing five seconds of severe turbulence. An individual passed away and dozens were injured, as individuals not fastened in rose out of their seats and crashed back down.

Bumpy air is fairly routine on aircraft journeys, and while occurrences of rough conditions are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are an estimated 5,000 incidents of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a sum of more than 35 million aircraft departures that are conducted worldwide.

Intense turbulence is described as when the sudden jolts of a aircraft experiencing rough air masses generate in excess of a significant G-force on your body - enough to lift you out of your seat if you were not fastened by a seatbelt.

As climate change alters the conditions in the sky, experts warn that air travel could become more turbulent: warming trends and altered air currents in the higher altitudes are expected to heighten the occurrence and strength of significant turbulence.