It mattered to the people he didn't kill.
Sometimes it happens that way. Francis Gary Powers died in a helicopter crash after running out of fuel. He was autorotating toward a spot where he expected to find a suitable landing site, until he noticed the spot was a baseball diamond with kids playing in it. He took an evasive maneuver that saved the kids but killed him.
It did crash in residential neighborhood. Article alluded to pilot trying not to. The point is whatever the pilot’s intentions and valiant efforts, they were utterly ineffectual due to the uncontrollable and unrecoverable flat spin.
This plane crashed straight down on a house, otherwise many would have been killed on the ground. Thankfully no one was home and no one on the ground was injured.