Paweł Wypych was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 politician, former Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Insurance president, and from 2009 the Secretary of State in the Chancellery

Office of the President of the Republic of Poland

The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland , established in 1989, is an institution working for and under the Polish president. This is an equivalent of such institutions as the Executive Chancellery of the President of the United States, and consists of the immediate staff of the...

 of the President of Poland.

Wypych was born in Otwock

Otwock

Otwock is a town in central Poland, some southeast of Warsaw, with 42,765 inhabitants . It is situated on the right bank of Vistula River below the mouth of Swider River. Otwock is home to a unique architectural style called Swidermajer....

. He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154

2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash

The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010, when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board...

 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment

36th Special Aviation Regiment

The 36 Specjalny Pułk Lotnictwa Transportowego 36 SPLT is a special aviation regiment of the Siły Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, established in 1945. All of its aircraft are for national public use, the most important being transport of Polish politicians and MON highest officials &...

 carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński

Lech Kaczynski

Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...

 which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk

Smolensk

Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk...

, Russia

Russia

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, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.

Shortly after his death, on 16 April 2010, Wypych was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and on April 17, he received the Honorary Cross of the Scouting Association of the Republic - AD amīcum. He also received the Merit for the City of Warsaw on September 9, 2010.