I had this too - seems to be caused by a corrupt away team.
Using another dropship worked.
The team from first base crashed on other sites, too.
I de/re-equipped their weapons and armors and removed the new plasma 25mm grenades, and the problem was gone. Error message:
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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Assertion failed!
Program: E:\Games\UFOAI-2.1.1\ufo.exe
File: ../../src/client/cl_team.c
Line: 613
Expression: cp
For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts
(Press Retry to debug the application - JIT must be enabled)
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