For those complaining about excessive development in the near-runway areas; please explain to me how this King Air crash would have had a totally different ending if it had pancaked into flat open ground at over 100kts, and full of fuel?
I'm not sure how you 'pancake in at over 100kts'. A forced landing on 'flat open ground' is survivable. That's why aerodromes like Essendon (and Bankstown and Jandakot and ... and ... and...) were built in a location that had lots of flat open ground near them. And what did your instructor tell you to look for when practising EFATO? Not a DFO.
Do you really believe everyone on board would have just walked away, if there were no buildings there?
Yep, I believe it would have been a high probability.