A former metro-Denver businessman was one of the victims in Sunday’s airplane crash in Thailand.
Stefan Mark Woronoff, 42, was among five Americans killed as a jet crashed and burned while trying to land in heavy rain and wind on the resort island of Phuket, where he lived.
Woronoff’s father, David, of Aurora, said he was aware his son was planning to fly to Phuket that day and knew the day afterward that he was among the 89 casualties of the 130 aboard.
A memorial is planned for Woronoff at 5 p.m. Sunday at Dixon’s restaurant, 16th and Wazee streets, in LoDo.
Stefan Woronoff was born Nov. 27, 1964, in Bridgeport, Conn., and grew up in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Florida. He moved to Colorado in 1985 and was a 1996 graduate of Metropolitan State College of Denver, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer-information systems and management. He was a software engineer for Gerber Systems in Englewood and later for Nokia in San Diego and Finland. He moved to Thailand three years ago for “an early retirement,” his father said.
