Right. Passengers are still stuck in the cabins. No change with relog or exit the game. After the update today I accepted the sightseeing missions, traveled and scanned the beacon not getting the passenger complete responses. Back to the origin station and then saw no listings on the transactions page or passenger lounge. I might consider a ship destruct and a 5 million rebuy but that doesn't guarantee the next passenger mission accepted will work. Also after the update I wouldn't want to find out that the rebuy might have issues getting all the engineered equipment back. At least the launcher says that Frontier is investigating the problem.
Better wait or write a ticket. FD support can remove them, but I
think they restored the missions from a backup and the passengers on board somehow are not linked to them anymore. They might be able to fix that in another step, don't know for sure ofc. Many moons ago I had a similar problem and wrote a ticket, but next morning, the mission in question had expired and the passengers went off-board alone. Or so support told me. You could try to make them unhappy ofc and they might jump overboard possibly.
As I said earlier, I did a donation mission after the patch and that worked ok. To verify, I did not instantly pay, but left the mission dialog, checked the transaction tab, reopened the missions dialog again and reluctantly paid 300k to a rivaling faction as the Teabaggers were not short of money that time. Don't know what happens with passengers/cargo, but some here wrote initially donation missions didn't work too, and they did in my case.
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