the US government has seized Venezuelan president Nicholas maduro's airplane in the Dominican Republic according to a report the plane referred to by us officials as Venezuela's equivalent of Air Force 1 was brought to Florida on Monday after being found in violation of us sanctions according to two US officials who spoke to CNN maduro's plane which is a d salt Falcon 900 is estimated to be worth around $13 million in the past few months the plane has been in the Dominican Republic for unknown reasons according to the outlet several agencies took part and seizing the plane some exclusive live pictures that we're showing you right now of the seized plane belonging to Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro Maduro we should note is not on board but the plane was seized by officials for violating us sanctions CNN's Kylie Atwood joins me now uh Kylie this is uh pretty extraordinary this does not happen