It's all "open source" and available to read on the web if your "Google-Fu" is strong, so I don't think I'm "out of the box here"...but someone here will have issues...
Looks to me that the crash site is smack dab inside what the NAS Oceana AICUZ planning documents call "APZ 2"...e.g., "Accident Potential Zone 2". Not very well defined, at least during my cursory search, but means "sorta less than APZ 1"...which is where a lot of hot metal can be expected to fall, I imagine...over the course of time. So...the civilian community was "kinda, sorta" informed that "bad things can happen here"...based on literally decades of historical mishap statistics and evidence. I'm sure that meant little or nothing to "property tax-minded" city planners, zoning officials, and/or local real estate developers, nor was it ever explicitly or even implicitly revealed to potential buyers/renters within that area. But now...it's the government's/DON's fault.