[Agent Smith]

Would a composite vertical stabilizer be attached to the tail with bolts or glue, or a combination of the two?

[Axeslinger]

At some point you have got to have physical attachments. These would, without question, be hardware of some sort or another. Typically, the hardware has a bushing of some sort to prevent tearing through the composite material. While, I would grant that there is minute chance of hardware tearing through the composite material, there would be very obvious signs of this long before it actually let go. Thus, the maintenance program at AA would have to be utterly and completely derelict to miss this sort of thing.