Dropship shot down, soldiers still exist

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- Dropship was shot down by UFO
- => I would have expected my poor soldiers on that dropship to be dead, BUT:
- Those soldiers are still listed as employees
- Status of soldiers is "away" (or similar), grayed out
- No indication of where those soldiers might be
- Cannot remove / fire them

Don't know if bug is reproducible (how did I even manage to get the dropship shot down?)

Sorry, I'm too lazy to provide much additional data. Bug does not seem to important anyway.
Version: 2.4, Windows 7 SP1 64bit

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Update:
Finally managed to get my dropship shot down again.
This time, I got a map marker offering a rescue mission.

==> Maybe the dropship crashed into the sea last time hence not giving a rescue map marker?