 He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all on board.To honor his memory, in April 2010, City Council of Kolobrzeg passed the resolution to name the newly built football stadium in Kolobrzeg "Sebastian Karpinuk".On 16 April 2010, Karpinuk was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.